Autodesk has been awarded a contract to provide building information modeling services for Qatar Rail’s work to construct an integrated railway network in the Middle Eastern country. The company will advise Qatar Rail on implementing BIM technologies and practices and help to train Qatar Rail’s staff for the railway project over the next three years, Autodesk […] More

A study from Booz Allen Hamilton and the Government Business Council recommends government and industry align their expectations in order to meet the requirements of defense acquisition programs. The Booz Allen-backed study polled 340 federal and defense leaders to assess their views on military procurement and potential reform in the process, Booz Allen said Wednesday. Eighty-five […] More

UnitedHealthcare has donated $1 million to the Office for Community Child Health of the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in order to support care delivery functions. The office will use the proceeds to create a Maintenance of Certification program to help train primary care pediatricians in managing diseases such as asthma and obesity, the company announced Tuesday. […] More

Deloitte and the Northern New England Accountable Care Collaborative have partnered to offer an analytics technology platform with the goal of addressing unwarranted variations in population-based care. Insight is built to integrate Deloitte unit ConvergeHealth‘s data management system with NNEACC’s predictive models and seeks to help providers manage clinical risks, health outcomes and care coordination, […] More

Informatica Corp. is working to help outsourced development services provider ICON Plc handle clinical trials and process data by using a multidomain master data management tool. ICON views information and works to unlock value by using the Informatica MDM service in order to execute clinical trial planning, services and reporting, Informatica said Thursday. Andrew Thompson, […] More

FireEye has opened a Dresden, Germany-based research and development center, where the company will work with European educational institutions on security research, FireEye said Tuesday. David DeWalt, FireEye chairman and CEO, said the European research center is part of a company effort to help customers combat threats. The FireEye European, Singapore and Bangalore R&D teams will collaborate with […] More

Accenture will work to help U.K.-based water and wastewater services provider Thames Water integrate digital technologies into business systems in an effort to monitor assets through real-time data analytics. Accenture initiated a pilot program in September 2013 to track and evaluate technology integration outcomes using smart grid services at Thames Water facilities until March 2015, […] More

Boeing, South African Airways and the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials will collaborate to encourage small farm owners to produce environmentally-sustainable crops for biofuel use. The alliance will offer training programs designed to help South African farmers become certified biofuel feedstock growers, Boeing said Wednesday. Boeing has launched a similar effort with RSB in Southeast Asia […] More

Informatica has introduced an application retirement offering for healthcare customers that work to modernize business applications. The new tool is built based on the Informatica Data Archive platform and works to retain necessary data and consolidate information technology infrastructure upon retirement of legacy systems, Informatica said Tuesday. Dave Wilson, senior director for health and life sciences […] More

Optum has unveiled a new health intelligence platform that is intended to help healthcare providers extract insights from large volumes of patient data. The Optum One platform is built for customers to analyze information from electronic medical record systems and make decisions based on the results by using applications, Optum said Tuesday. The technology is designed […] More

A General Dynamics business unit has won a $138 million contract to help the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center perform clinical services for service members and veterans. General Dynamics Information Technology’s traumatic brain injury specialists, healthcare workers and service coordinators will be deployed across 15 medical treatment sites of the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments, General […] More

New research from Accenture has predicted an emergence in new offerings that are intended to help expand electronic health records according to market needs. According to the study, the world’s hospital-based EHR market will reach $22.3 billion by December 2015, a market slowdown at 5 percent growth annually from 9 percent in 2010. Despite the […] More