Healthcare IT

PatientPoint has partnered with The Veteran Group to offer point-of-care education and engagement platforms to the Department of Veterans Affairs and other federal healthcare providers. The Veteran Group will deploy and install PatientPoint’s health technology products at government customer facilities in an effort to help improve clinician-patient communication, PatientPoint said Thursday. Larry Carver, president and CEO […] More

LexisNexis has added data from the Defense Department Boards for the Correction of Military Records to its online research tool in a move to provide veterans and their advocates with access military record change information from all the military branches. The company said Thursday its Pro Bono Task Force added the information to Lexis Advance […] More

Apprio has received a contract to help transfer the U.S. military’s electronic health record system modernization program from a Defense Department office to a Defense Health Agency directorate. The company said Wednesday it will support the transition of the Military Health System “GENESIS“ EHR project to DHA’s Health Information Technology Directorate from the DoD’s Healthcare Management System Modernization Program Management Office. […] More

Leidos has received three task orders worth $45 million combined from the National Institutes of Health to provide information technology services to the National Heart Lung Blood Institute’s IT and applications center. The company said Thursday it will use a software quality process that employs agile and DevOps methods in efforts to help ITAC maintain NHLBI’s IT application portfolio […] 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

The Department of Veterans Affairs has named MetLife as the official provider of dental insurance products and services for approximately 8.6 million eligible military veterans currently enrolled in the VA healthcare program. VA’s Dental Insurance Program also seeks to provide an opportunity for Civilian Health and Medical Program beneficiaries to acquire voluntary dental insurance, MetLife said Thursday. MetLife served as the initial provider […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded Charles River Analytics a 27-month, $1.1 million contract to develop requirements for a game-based program that would help train medical teams to perform high-intensity trauma treatment methods. Charles River said Monday it will collaborate with Medstar Health Research Institute, HandHeld Speech and John Broach, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical […] More

Irving Burton Associates has received a two-year, $11 million contract for research, management and technical services to the U.S. Army‘s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center. IBA said Thursday it will deploy telehealth and mobile health managers, physicians and medics to support TATRC programs related to telehealth, medical simulation and robotics, unmanned systems, and mobile technology. USAMRMC […] More