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  • MetLife to Continue Service as VA Dental Insurance Provider - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MetLife to Continue Service as VA Dental Insurance Provider

    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

  • Leidos Team Deploys New DoD EHR Platform at Naval Hospital Bremerton; Jerry Hogge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Team Deploys New DoD EHR Platform at Naval Hospital Bremerton; Jerry Hogge Comments

    The team of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture has installed a new electronic health records platform at Naval Hospital Bremerton in Washington as part of the Defense Department‘s efforts to modernize the Military Health System. Leidos said Monday the deployment of the MHS GENESIS platform in Bremerton is part of the initial operational capability rollout of the EHR system […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Help Army Develop Game-Based Medical Training Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Help Army Develop Game-Based Medical Training Program

    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 to Support Army Health IT Research Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Irving Burton Associates to Support Army Health IT Research Programs

    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

  • Salient CRGT Subsidiary to Expand VA Medical Center Voice System Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT Subsidiary to Expand VA Medical Center Voice System Deployment

    Salient CRGT‘s Information Innovations Inc. subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $13.6 million task order to implement voice systems at Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare facilities located in North Carolina and Virginia. Triple-i will lead a team of network and telecommunications engineers in efforts to help the Hampton VA Medical Center and its regional facilities operate, […] More

  • DSS to Help VHA Implement Renal Patient Data Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DSS to Help VHA Implement Renal Patient Data Mgmt System

    Document Storage Systems has received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract of an undisclosed value to deliver and install a healthcare management system for kidney disease patients at Veterans Health Administration facilities. DSS said Tuesday it will implement the cyberREN Renal Patient Care Management System to support VHA’s nephrology services and integrate the platform with Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture. CyberREN was developed by DSS […] More

  • Carahsoft to Offer Agencies Health Research Data via GSA Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Offer Agencies Health Research Data via GSA Schedule

    Carahsoft has agreed to offer MarketResearch.com‘s healthcare industry research data to government clients via the General Services Administration‘s Schedule contract vehicle. MarketResearch.com said Tuesday its Kalorama Information Knowledge Center provides access to market research in the areas of imaging, medical devices, biotechnology, in vitro diagnostics and pharmaceuticals. Carahsoft will offer complimentary demonstrations of Kalorama Information to customer agencies […] More

  • SAIC to Continue Enterprise IT Support for National Institute of Mental Health; Bob Genter Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC to Continue Enterprise IT Support for National Institute of Mental Health; Bob Genter Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. has received a potential five-year, $48 million task order to continue to provide information technology services to the National Institute of Mental Health. SAIC said Tuesday it will help NIMH plan, implement and manage the institute’s technology environment under the task order. “We are excited to grow our health portfolio and provide enterprise […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Develops Tablet-Based Trauma Assessment Training System for DoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Develops Tablet-Based Trauma Assessment Training System for DoD

    Charles River Analytics has developed a tablet-based system designed to help train Defense Department medical personnel for primary and secondary trauma assessment under a 27-month, $749,000 follow-on contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. The company said Monday the System for Trauma Assessment Training works to help clinicians assess, learn and rehearse various trauma scenarios with a virtual patient. […] More

  • ViraCyte Secures NIH, FDA Grants to Develop, Test T-Cell Immunotherapies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViraCyte Secures NIH, FDA Grants to Develop, Test T-Cell Immunotherapies

    ViraCyte has secured $3.75 million in contracts from the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to continue development work on cellular immunotherapies designed to protect stem cell transplant recipients from severe infections. NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute awarded ViraCyte a $3 million contract to advance clinical development of a T-cell immunotherapy […] More

  • VA to Adopt COTS Platform for EHR System Modernization; Leidos’ Jerry Hogge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA to Adopt COTS Platform for EHR System Modernization; Leidos’ Jerry Hogge Comments

    The Department of Veterans Affairs opted to adopt a commercial off-the-shelf platform to manage its electronic health records by awarding a sole-source contract to Cerner in June, E-Commerce Times reported Friday. The commercial EHR system from Cerner will replace VA’s current VistA platform and is designed to be interoperable with the Defense Dapartment’s EHR tool. DoD selected […] More

  • Roger Krone: Leidos Eyes Future VA EHR System Integration Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Krone: Leidos Eyes Future VA EHR System Integration Support

    Leidos CEO Roger Krone has said he believes the company could help the Department of Veterans Affairs integrate a commercial electronic health records system with VA’s current VistA platform, FCW reported Tuesday. Krone, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, told investors June 14 that Leidos has engaged in “top-level conversations” with VA officials to […] More