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Fulcrum has been awarded five additional task areas as part of a modification to its existing position on a potential 10-year, $20 billion governmentwide contract vehicle for information technology products and services managed by a National Institutes of Health office. The company now competes for work in all 10 areas under the NIH Chief Information […] More
Philips‘ medical systems subsidiary has landed a $77 million contract modification from the Defense Logistics Agency for continued training and delivery of patient monitoring systems, subsystems, accessories, spares and repair parts. Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support has exercised the seventh of nine one-year option periods under the contract with an initial one-year base period, the Defense Department said […] More
The Defense Department has installed a Mediware Information Systems-designed blood establishment computer software the military now uses at more than 20 treatment facilities worldwide. DoD will use Mediware’s LifeTrak to manage blood donations and handle tasks for functions in areas such as donor recruitment and management assistance, manufacturing, testing, labeling and blood product distribution, Mediware said Thursday. The Military Health System uses LifeTrak for MHS’ […] More
SRI International will carry out pre-clinical studies on compounds and vaccines to determine if they can act as preventive agents against cancer under a $19.8 million contract with a National Institutes of Health center. The company said Thursday its biosciences division will work to examine the effectiveness of experimental vaccines and test biomarkers in an effort to parallel how the body responds […] More
A Royal Philips-built digital pathology technology has been certified by the Defense Department as security compliant under the DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process. DoD granted Philips a DIACAP certification and an authorization to operate for the company’s IntelliSite platform that is designed to manage pathological workflows, facilitate multisite collaboration among clinicians and secure electronic protected health information, Philips said Thursday. “This latest […] More
Advanced BioScience Laboratories will participate in an Engility-led consortium that holds a prime position under a potential 10-year, $900 million contract awarded in January to help research and develop medical products for the U.S. Army. ABL will collaborate with Engility to support the Army’s Medical Research and Materiel Command and aims to leverage its product development, manufacturing, testing and project management experience […] More
Accenture has received a two-year contract from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to assist the agency in creating a policy framework on the collection and management of patient-reported information. The company said Monday it aims to help ONC identify strategies for healthcare organizations to use patient-generated health data for care delivery and clinical research efforts. PGHD refers […] More
American Systems has completed phase one of the testing infrastructure for the Program Executive Office Defense Healthcare Management Systems under a General Services Administration Connections II contract. West Virginia-based Allegany Ballistics Laboratory hosts the testing infrastructure to maintain information technology systems, applications, networks and virtual environments, American Systems said Monday. “American Systems is delighted to be […] More
McKesson will continue to provide information technology hosting services to Virginia-based Davis Health System and the Western Reserve Hospital in Ohio under two separate contract extensions. The company said Friday it works with the two healthcare organizations to help them manage and secure their clinical and financial systems and applications. “We know our customers face an increasingly complex […] More
A Raytheon subsidiary has agreed to combine its speech-to-text conversion technology with Entrada‘s cloud-based mobile productivity platform as the companies aim to simplify the documentation of patient data. Entrada’s technology is designed to help caregivers dictate a patient’s narrative into an electronic health record via a mobile application, Raytheon said Monday. The mobile-based healthcare platform will be integrated with Raytheon BBN […] More
Vencore has partnered with Havas Health to market data analytics technology that aims to help pharmaceutical companies identify people with rare diseases. Mac Curtis, Vencore CEO and an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2016, said Friday the partnership will allow the company “to expand its reach and make a life-changing, and in some cases life-saving, impact on patients who suffer from ailments that have […] More
Software firm iCONECT has teamed up with Lockheed Martin’s information systems and global solutions segment in an effort to help healthcare institutions reduce maintenance costs associated with legacy electronic medical records systems. Lockheed will use its tool to migrate EMRs and related data from a variety of legacy applications to the iCONECT-built XERA Application Decommissioning repository […] More
