Ross Wilkers
The healthcare information technology market continues to be a source of growth for GovCon firms both large and small and ExecutiveBiz casts its eye on business gains in this “hot lane” of the government contracting sector.
ExecutiveBiz, one of five Executive Mosaic properties covering daily GovCon sector news, is EM’s primary avenue for readers to follow the latest contract wins and other business developments in this growing health IT market.
Agencies at all levels of government are preparing for changes to how citizens will shop for and buy healthcare and companies are lining up to help build new insurance exchanges and develop new technology platforms to manage health services.
At the federal level, General Dynamics‘ Vangent business unit won a contract to operate a call center for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, intended to field questions on state health insurance exchanges.
CMS plans to field 300 agents at the center, who will aim to help citizens understand government health plans such as Medicare Advantage.
SRA International won a set of contracts from the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to help the agencies implement technology and systems for managing their healthcare programs.
The Fairfax, Va.-based contractor will install a customer relationship management system for VA users to access military service history and data on benefits and other types of information.
Another contract will have SRA help the VA implement a new risk assessment tool intended to help healthcare professionals collect information from patients via questionnaires.
ExecutiveBiz also covers health IT gains at the state level, including IBM‘s agreement to help South Carolina manage its Medicaid system by installing its Curam software with the goal of automating paper-based processes and managing big data.
South Carolina intends for citizens to access an online self-service portal and for Curam to support mobile and community-based workers.
Altegrity subsidiary Kroll Advisory Solutions announced a new product intended to help healthcare business partners comply with regulations, unveiling a new risk assessment tool intended to measure performance and validate compliance.
Kroll’s Business Associate HIPAA Self Risk Assessment tool aims to help clients shore up weak points in their administrative, physical and technical security postures.
