Healthcare IT

Cherokee Nation Technologies has won a potential five-year, $55 million order from the Defense Health Agency to provide health surveillance support for the Defense Department. DoD said Thursday the company will help maintain existing infrastructure; respond to inquiries from medical and health authorities; and analyze, interpret and disseminate information on the status, trends and determinants of the […] More

By Light Professional IT Services and Cybraics have partnered to expand their healthcare information security and data protection services for the government sector. The partnership seeks to integrate artificial intelligence and security analytics “as a service” platforms into By Light’s cybersecurity portfolio, the company said Monday. By Light CEO Bob Donahue said that adding AI technology into the […] More

SAS and VirtualHealth have partnered to combine an integrated care management platform with analytics in an effort to help government agencies manage delivery of healthcare services. The alliance plans to integrate SAS’ data management, visualization and analytics tools, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, into VirtualHealth’s care management platform, SAS said Monday. The combined offering is designed […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded contracts to two companies and two universities to develop tools that can help stop the spread of infectious diseases within 60 days. MedImmune, Abcellera Biologics, Duke University and Vanderbilt University will create technologies for the Pandemic Prevention Platform designed to analyze viruses for antibody discovery and assess candidate therapeutic products, DARPA said Thursday. […] More

The U.S. Army and Defense Health Agency have chosen a Cog–Management Sciences Inc. team to develop a dual-persona mobile system that can tunnel the service branch’s unclassified medical information through a classified tactical network. Cog said Thursday it will collaborate with MSI to build a prototype multilevel security platform for Army medics to bypass the declassification process when […] More

A General Atomics business unit has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build a portable medical device for military personnel to detect if they have come into contact with an infectious disease. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will equipe the Portable Diagnostic Platform with sensor technology and disposable cartridges designed to perform laboratory-quality molecular […] More

Tetra Tech has received a potential five-year, $40 million contract to develop an aviation personnel medical information tracking system for the Federal Aviation Administration. The company said Tuesday it will provide design, architecture development, test, data analysis, training and deployment support services to FAA under the Aerospace Medicine Safety Information System contract. Dan Batrack, chairman and CEO […] More

Change Healthcare has secured a position on the fourth iteration of the Defense Logistics Agency‘s potential 10-year Digital Imaging Network–Picture Archiving and Communications System procurement vehicle for U.S. military branches and federal civilian agencies. The company said Thursday that Military Health System and Veterans Health Administration customers can buy McKesson-built enterprise imaging products that are now part of Change Healthcare’s […] More

Eccrine Systems has received a $750,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force to further develop a sensor technology designed to measure certain biomarkers in human sweat as an indicator of cognitive performance. The company said Thursday it aims to advance development of its sweat sensing technology under the second phase of the U.S. Air Force‘s Small Business Innovation […] More

The U.S. Army has partnered with Helius Medical Technologies through a cooperative research and development agreement that seeks to improve soldier readiness and resilience with the use of technology. Helius and the Army Research Laboratory will launch an effort to investigate the potential use of the company’s Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator in military cognitive and psychological preparedness efforts, the […] More