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  • CORL Study: Only 26% of Health Industry Business Associates Have Security Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CORL Study: Only 26% of Health Industry Business Associates Have Security Certification

    CORL Technologies analyzed the certification status of 1,000 vendors from the company’s database of nearly 30,000 health industry business associates and found that just 26 percent of BAs hold a security certification. CORL said Tuesday its analysis also showed that 74 percent of health industry businesses lack security certifications related to health IT. “Without the proper security certifications in place, a security breach experienced by […] More

  • ONC Unveils Winners for Phase 2 Healthcare App Design Challenges - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ONC Unveils Winners for Phase 2 Healthcare App Design Challenges

    The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has unveiled the winners for the second phase of a pair of contests that sought healthcare data management applications for consumers and providers. The Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge and the Provider User Experience Challenge aimed to foster the development of market-ready apps that will help consumers and providers integrate […] More

  • IBM, FDA Partner to Explore Secure Health Data Exchange Through Blockchain Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, FDA Partner to Explore Secure Health Data Exchange Through Blockchain Tech

    IBM‘s Watson Health unit and the Food and Drug Administration have entered into a two-year research agreement to study the use of blockchain technology to facilitate a secure exchange of health data. The company said Wednesday the partnership will initially focus on oncology-related information and look into the exchange of owner-mediated data from sources such as electronic medical records, clinical […] More

  • Accenture White Paper Examines Use of Patient-Generated Health Data in Care Delivery, Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture White Paper Examines Use of Patient-Generated Health Data in Care Delivery, Research

    The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology seeks public comments on Accenture‘s draft white paper that explores the capture, use and exchange of patient-generated health data. Accenture said Wednesday its federal services subsidiary created the report as part of a two-year contract with ONC to determine opportunities and challenges related to the capture of PGHD by […] More

  • PaxVax to Collaborate With NIH, DoD on Chikungunya Vaccine Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PaxVax to Collaborate With NIH, DoD on Chikungunya Vaccine Development

    PaxVax has teamed up with the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department to produce a commercial vaccine for the chikungunya virus. The company said Thursday it licensed NIH’s virus-like particle vaccine technology for chikungunya and aims to fully commercialize the vaccine through the collaborative effort. NIH currently evaluates the vaccine under a second-phase trial and PaxVax noted it plans […] More

  • Deltek Report: Federal Health IT Demand to Reach $6.4B by Fiscal 2021 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Report: Federal Health IT Demand to Reach $6.4B by Fiscal 2021

    A new Deltek report predicts that U.S. federal government demand for vendor-furnished health information technology products and services will hit $6.4 billion by fiscal year 2021 from $6 billion in fiscal 2016 at a compound annual growth rate of 1.4 percent. The “Federal Health Information Technology Market, 2016-2021” report forecasts that efforts to digitize, share, analyze and […] More

  • ICF Secures CDC Public Health Communication Support Contracts; Kris Tremaine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Secures CDC Public Health Communication Support Contracts; Kris Tremaine Comments

    ICF has secured nine contracts worth a combined $34.4 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support CDC’s public health campaigns. CDC will use the company’s campaign development, creative, digital advertising, social marketing and media, stakeholder and traditional engagement expertise to facilitate  multiple projects such as the National Diabetes Prevention Program, ICF said Friday. The first task order covers support for tobacco […] More

  • Premier Asks Incoming Administration to Develop Incentives for Healthcare Delivery System Changes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Premier Asks Incoming Administration to Develop Incentives for Healthcare Delivery System Changes

    Charlotte, North Carolina-based healthcare firm Premier has called on the incoming administration to address healthcare challenges through the creation of incentives for changes in the care delivery process. The company said in a letter to President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence to promote competition in the pharmaceutical market to reduce drug costs and […] More

  • IBA Chosen for DHA Health IT Division Systems Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBA Chosen for DHA Health IT Division Systems Support

    The Defense Health Agency has awarded Irving Burton Associates a $10 million contract to provide military health systems support for the DHA’s health information technology solutions delivery division. IBA said Thursday its services will encompass areas such as agile transformation, operations and engineering, business process analysis, agile requirements, configuration management, program management and acquisition financial support. “Our experts will […] More

  • CMS to Extend Use of McKesson InterQual Criteria for Medicare Auditing Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CMS to Extend Use of McKesson InterQual Criteria for Medicare Auditing Efforts

    McKesson‘s health solutions business has received a contract to continue to provide the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services access to company-developed criteria for Medicare services auditing programs. InterQual Criteria works to help administrative law judges, Medicare fiscal intermediaries and administrative contractors, quality improvement organizations and CMS departments to make evidence-based clinical decisions and manage care, McKesson […] More

  • Inova Health System Creates Investment Arm, Accelerator Program in Care Optimization Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inova Health System Creates Investment Arm, Accelerator Program in Care Optimization Push

    Falls Church, Virginia-based nonprofit healthcare provider Inova Health System has launched an investment unit and an accelerator program in a push to optimize care quality at the organization and in the region. Inova Strategic Investments will invest in healthcare venture funds and in companies that align with Inova’s strategic priorities such as advanced analytics, clinical practice innovations and information technology […] More

  • IBM, Rice University Collaborate to Develop Eldercare Robot Assistant; Arvind Krishna Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, Rice University Collaborate to Develop Eldercare Robot Assistant; Arvind Krishna Comments

    IBM’s research business and Rice University have developed a robot assistant that uses Watson-based cognitive computing application to help manage care for elderly people. The prototype IBM Multi-Purpose Eldercare Robot Assistant is designed to measure an individual’s heart rate, heart rate variability and respiratory rate and provide answers to health-related queries as part of a study that aims to improve eldercare, IBM said […] More