ICF has finalized its acquisition of public sector-serving health technology company SemanticBits, adding to the digital services and consulting firm’s health information technology capabilities. With the completion of the transaction, ICF now expects to see changes appear on its second quarter financial results when they go live in August, the Fairfax, Virginia-based consultancy said Thursday. […] More

Raquel Bono, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and a three-time winner of the prestigious Wash100 Award, will bring nearly four decades of expertise in military medicine and health care administration to CNSI’s Health Advisory Board. “Raquel Bono is a highly respected authority on large-scale healthcare operations, and we are honored to have the benefit of her […] More

Healthcare is one of the industries that commands the largest portion of the federal government’s budget. It encompasses many institutions, such as public health agencies, laboratories, departments, and health insurance programs, including CHIP, Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA Marketplaces. To ensure the effective delivery of healthcare services to Americans, numerous federal government agencies award healthcare […] More

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has selected Federal Resources as one of four awardees under a potential $2 billion indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide COVID-19 testing solutions. The contract has a one-year base period and four additional one-year option periods.

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MetTel has been awarded a spot on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) 15-year, $722 million National Local Exchange Carrier Services for the Next Generation (NLEC-NG) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. "We're proud to support the Department of Veterans Affairs and their traditional LEC services with our innovative delivery methodology," said Robert Dapkiewicz, senior vice president and general manager, MetTel Federal.

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Guidehouse has released a study, analyzing hospital and health system executives revenues before and after COVID-19, the company reported on Thursday. The survey was conducted by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

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Jacobs has appointed Nino Kharaishvili, a global expert in health security and health system emergency preparedness and resilience, to the company's Federal and Environmental Solutions team as principal of the Health System Resilience practice, the company reported on Thursday.

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Tiphanie Forst, former senior executive of U.S. federal accounts at Cerner, has joined SeKON Enterprise as senior vice president for federal health growth, G2Xchange Health reported Tuesday. 

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Robert Wilkie, secretary of Veterans Affairs, was inducted into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his achievements in modernizing the VA electronic health care system. This honor marks the first Wash100 Award win for Wilkie.

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    DLH Corp. has won a $5 million contract to support healthcare operations at the U.S. Navy’s Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth,Va. The Atlanta, Ga.-based firm said Tuesday it will provide integrative and comprehensive care to medical home port patients at the NMCP complex and at the center’s Oceana and Virginia Beach facilities. As part of […] More

“If we can start adopting standards for data and system interoperability, we will be able to make tremendous advances in understanding how we can best support the total population across America.” EM: Let’s start with your background. Bill Lovell: I’ve spent my adult life inside federal healthcare, starting as a laboratory scientist in the military health […] More

The Defense Department and nonprofit health system SSM Health have partnered to exchange electronic health records of DoD’s active-duty service members, civilian employees, retirees and dependents. The partnership authorizes SSM Health-affiliated care providers in Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma to access patient records of DoD employees, dependents and retirees while the department can also access SSM Health’s records, the nonprofit said Wednesday. Richard Vaughn, […] More