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  • Roger Krone: Leidos Eyes Future VA EHR System Integration Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Krone: Leidos Eyes Future VA EHR System Integration Support

    Leidos CEO Roger Krone has said he believes the company could help the Department of Veterans Affairs integrate a commercial electronic health records system with VA’s current VistA platform, FCW reported Tuesday. Krone, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, told investors June 14 that Leidos has engaged in “top-level conversations” with VA officials to […] More

  • IBA Chosen for DHA Health IT Division Systems Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBA Chosen for DHA Health IT Division Systems Support

    The Defense Health Agency has awarded Irving Burton Associates a $10 million contract to provide military health systems support for the DHA’s health information technology solutions delivery division. IBA said Thursday its services will encompass areas such as agile transformation, operations and engineering, business process analysis, agile requirements, configuration management, program management and acquisition financial support. “Our experts will […] More

  • Irving Burton Associates to Continue Support for Army Health Informatics, Telemedicine Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Irving Burton Associates to Continue Support for Army Health Informatics, Telemedicine Programs

    Irving Burton Associates has received a five-year, $10 million contract to provide research, scientific, management and technical services to the Joint Program Committee-1 at the U.S. Army‘s Medical Research and Material Command. IBA said the contract covers support for JPC-1 in the areas of health information technology, informatics, medical modeling and simulation, systems engineering, logistics, communications and program management. Karthik Srinivasan, […] More

  • KEPRO to Help DoD Assess Military Healthcare Services; Joe Dougher Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KEPRO to Help DoD Assess Military Healthcare Services; Joe Dougher Comments

    KEPRO has received a contract from the Defense Department to conduct healthcare assessments for Military Health System beneficiaries under the Tricare program. As the Defense Health Agency‘s Tricare quality monitoring contractor, the company will integrate the direct and purchased care delivery systems and audit 54 military treatment facilities worldwide, KEPRO said Monday. “We will continue […] More

  • Cerner Lands $74M Data Hosting Add-On Contract Under DoD's EHR System Modernization Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cerner Lands $74M Data Hosting Add-On Contract Under DoD’s EHR System Modernization Initiative

    Healthcare technology developer Cerner has been awarded a potential $73.7 million sole-source contract to host clinical data for the initial operating phase of the Defense Department‘s future Genesis military health records system, FCW reported Thursday. Zach Noble writes the award is an add-on to the $4.3 billion Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract the team of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture won in July 2015. DoD initially […] More

  • FCN Receives DHA Contract to Maintain Cisco Hardware at US Military Treatment Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FCN Receives DHA Contract to Maintain Cisco Hardware at US Military Treatment Facilities

    The Defense Health Agency has awarded FCN a $10.4 million contract to provide maintenance services for Cisco-built infrastructure currently installed at DHA and U.S. military treatment facilities around the world. The Defense Department said Monday the contract has a nine-month base transition-in period and four 12-month options and will include account management, subject matter training, non-standard report preparation and cybersecurity support. DoD noted that existing Cisco hardware […] More

  • CGI to Assess DoD Healthcare Mgmt System Modernization Program; Pat Dougherty Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI to Assess DoD Healthcare Mgmt System Modernization Program; Pat Dougherty Comments

    CGI has received a task order to test and evaluate the Defense Department’s healthcare management system modernization initiative in an effort to help streamline healthcare delivery. The company said Friday it will work to verify the Joint Interoperability Test Command’s requirement for operational and interoperability testing of the DoD’s electronic health records system. The order contains one base year and two […] More

  • Joni Fernbaugh Joins Noblis as Business Dev't Director; Pat Brosey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joni Fernbaugh Joins Noblis as Business Dev’t Director; Pat Brosey Comments

    Joni Fernbaugh, formerly director of strategic and clinical programs at IMS Health, has been named director of business development at Noblis. Fernbaugh will also serve as a subject matter expert for the nonprofit science and technology organization’s health innovation-related missions, Noblis said March 7. “Her practical experience managing oversight of federal health strategic planning and operations […] More

  • Military Health System to Adopt McKesson Clinical Decision Support Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Military Health System to Adopt McKesson Clinical Decision Support Tool

    McKesson has been selected to deploy its evidence-based clinical decision support tool at military hospitals and clinics worldwide for the Military Health System. The Military Health System selected McKesson’s InterQual system to complement its military treatment facilities’ clinical judgment tool, McKesson said Thursday. The InterQual incorporates peer reviews from clinical experts across the U.S. McKesson […] More

  • Leidos Receives Navy Medical Research Modeling Contract; Jerry Hogge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Receives Navy Medical Research Modeling Contract; Jerry Hogge Comments

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Leidos a potential five-year, $26 million contract to design a medical and simulation research model for the Navy’s scientific data analysis efforts. Leidos said Thursday it will aid in the Naval Health Research Center’s work to collect identify, analyze and report data. The company will perform work in San Diego under the follow-on contract for a […] More

  • Pentagon Taps Orion Health’s EHR Info 'Engine' for Military Health System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pentagon Taps Orion Health’s EHR Info ‘Engine’ for Military Health System

    Orion Health will provide an interoperability and information exchange platform for implementation across the Military Health System for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization program at the Defense Department. The company’s Rhapsody Integration Engine works to facilitate interoperability between DoD’s EHR platform and civilian centers that provide healthcare services to uniformed personnel, the company said Monday. Orion Health is part of […] More

  • Roger Krone: Leidos to Lead DoD Health Record System Modernization Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Krone: Leidos to Lead DoD Health Record System Modernization Team

    Leidos will lead a health information technology consortium to build, integrate and deploy a commercial electronic medical records platform for the U.S. Defense Department under a potential $4.3 billion contract. “We are honored to have been selected as the best-value solution for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract,” Roger Krone, Leidos chairman and CEO, […] More