Team DecisionSim will continue to develop clinical simulations for the Veterans Affairs Department‘s simulation training and education program. VA has been applying the DecisionSim platform on patient safety, women’s health, palliative care, specialty care, team and communication skills training, human resources and operations areas, Decision Simulation said Wednesday. “We are excited about the VA’s continued expansion of DecisionSim and are honored to be a […] More

Gregory Gernhardt, who formerly led an engine program for the Airbus A320, has been promoted to lead the commercial engines area at Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies. In his new role, Gernhardt will will be responsible for all commercial Engines program management, sales and marketing activities, United Technologies said Thursday. “For the past five […] More

Harris Corp. will implement a medical technology for Georgia-based Phoebe Putney Health System to facilitate exchange of patient records across the organization’s network of five hospitals. Phoebe Putney chose Harris’ Fusion FX Provider Portal to help clinicians access medical data in real-time and make decisions at the point of care, Harris said Wednesday. Vishal Agrawal, […] More

Dell‘s OEM Solutions division has partnered with Intel to open the new Dell Internet of Things Lab in Santa Clara, California as the companies aim to help customers develop and test IoT solutions. Dell said Tuesday the lab is intended to help customers explore IoT technologies in order to apply the tools to manage business outcomes and time-to-market for products and services. “This lab […] More

Midas+, a Xerox company, has launched an analytics and workflow software that examines large amounts of patient-care information to provide healthcare providers insights on care recommendations. The Juvo Care Performance Platform works to suggest possible patient outcomes and trends based on data analysis from hospitals, national claims and continuity-of-care documents, Xerox said Thursday. Besides real-time analytics, Juvo also […] More

Toshiba Group has partnered with Johns Hopkins University to establish a research facility that aims to leverage big data to analyze medical conditions and improve patient care. The Toshiba Center for Big Data in Healthcare is located at the Johns Hopkins Science + Technology Park in Baltimore and seeks to identify potential treatments for patients […] More

Darryl Shaw, director of healthcare solutions and new product development at Verizon Enterprise, says his company is seeing higher rates adoption of cloud services for healthcare delivery among customers. Carlos Arcila, external communications manager for Verizon Enterprise, wrote Thursday that chief information officers are moving to migrate their services to cloud environments in order to fulfill Health Insurance Portability […] More

IBM Corp. has moved to expand the cognitive offerings of its Watson supercomputer by partnering with Baylor College of Medicine, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi and New York Genome Center on several big data research projects. Researchers will work to accelerate discoveries, test hypotheses and draw conclusions by using IBM’s Watson Discovery Advisor tool, IBM said Thursday. […] More

Deltek forecasts that state and local government agencies will increase spending on information technology products and services by more than 3 percent annually over the next five years, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Chris Dixon, a senior manager at the Herndon-based market analysis firm, estimates IT investments at the state and local levels to grow […] More

Healthcare company Abbott and the Defense Department will collaborate to develop blood-testing methods to help clinicians diagnose mild traumatic brain injuries in military personnel. Abbott said Monday that TBI-related abnormalities are not easily detected because its symptoms can be similar to those found in other medical conditions. “The quick and accurate diagnosis of a concussion is […] More

A U.S. military satellite carrying United Aerospace Systems-built intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors has completed four years in orbit. The Operationally Responsive Space-1 satellite works to provide the U.S. Central Command with imagery and data to help increase warfighters’ battlefield awarenesss, UTC Aerospace Systems said Monday. ORS-1 launched aboard a Minotaur I rocket from NASA’s […] More

Todd Grams made the jump from a nearly two-decade career in the Senior Executive Service to the private sector earlier this year when he joined Deloitte to help federal agencies with initiatives in enterprise risk and financial management. His career in federal government service includes time as chief financial officer and chief information officer at the Internal Revenue […] More