Joe Branson, a former director at Cerner’s government services division, has joined Liberty IT Solutions to serve as vice president of product strategy and partner relations, FedHealth IT reported Monday.

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Document Storage Systems has appointed Christopher Kunney, Roy Hammar and Todd Mingo to fill executive health IT roles.

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Jon Scholl, president of Leidos’ health group, said the health information technology infrastructure needs to be mapped and assessed in order to support the Department of Defense’s new electronic health record system, HIT Infrastructure reported Friday.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to procure Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers through a firm-fixed-price delivery order under NASA's Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract to support modernization of the VA electronic health records system.

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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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The Department of Veterans Affairs will host three business opportunity sessions to discuss with industry the requirements of the agency’s electronic health records modernization program.

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Black Book Market Research has named Leidos the top health information technology consultant for 2018 after the company obtained the highest ratings for customer satisfaction among 142 consultant firms. Black Book based its evaluation on polls answered by more than 2K healthcare organizations from the first quarter to the third quarter of this year, Leidos said […] More

The Defense Department plans to increase the ceiling amount of a potential 10-year, $4.3 billion contract to update and deploy a new electronic health records platform by approximately $1.1 billion, Nextgov reported Tuesday. An industry team composed of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture won the MHS Genesis EHR contract in July 2015. Stacy Cummings, program executive officer […] More

President Donald Trump has announced Robert Wilkie, acting secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, as his nominee to lead the department, CNN and other news outlets reported Friday. Currently the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, Wilkie has served as acting VA secretary since the late March firing of David Shulkin. “Acting Secretary Wilkie — who, by […] More

The Defense Health Agency has begun to request information on the availability of an enterprise reference and metadata management platform that will work to integrate business and health data amid the anticipated rise in clinical data driven by the adoption of a new electronic health record system. A FedBizOpps notice posted April 17 says DHA […] More

Jerry Hogge, senior vice president of Leidos’ health business, has said the Leidos-led team is on schedule to implement the optimization process for the Defense Department’s commercial electronic health records system over a two-month period, Nextgov reported Wednesday. The report said DoD and the industry team will address the remaining “trouble tickets” received from four test […] More

A Leidos-led industry team has delivered the new Military Health System’s electronic health records platform to a U.S. Army medical center located in Tacoma, Washington. The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health that includes Accenture, Cerner and Henry Schein will install and provide training and support for the MHS Genesis system at the Madigan Army Medical Center, Leidos […] More