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  • ID.me Helps VA Implement Online Veteran Healthcare Mgmt Tools; Blake Hall Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ID.me Helps VA Implement Online Veteran Healthcare Mgmt Tools; Blake Hall Comments

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has implemented tools from small business ID.me in the agency’s online portal designed to help veterans manage their healthcare and benefits electronically. VA said Wednesday that Vets.gov has met the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Level of Assurance 3 standard for information assurance to provide additional features on a single […] More

  • VA, Flow Health Partner to Build Medical Knowledge Graph for AI Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA, Flow Health Partner to Build Medical Knowledge Graph for AI Training

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has forged a five-year alliance with Flow Health to develop a medical knowledge graph that will incorporate deep learning to aid medical decision-making and train artificial intelligence systems on how to personalize care plans. The VA-Flow Health partnership aims to understand common elements that impact a person’s susceptibility to diseases as well as […] More

  • NIH's NIAID Institute Seeks Strategic Planning, Analytical Support for Clinical Research Division - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH’s NIAID Institute Seeks Strategic Planning, Analytical Support for Clinical Research Division

    The National Institute of Health‘s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has issued a sources sought notice to gather information on small businesses that can offer  support services to NIAID’s division of clinical research. NIAID DCR seeks contractor support in the administrative, analyses and reporting, management consulting, performance assessment, operational and resource planning areas, according to a notice posted Nov. […] More

  • Octo Consulting to Help Modernize Army's Electronic Medical Records System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Consulting to Help Modernize Army’s Electronic Medical Records System

    Octo Consulting Group has secured a potential three-year, $5 million contract from the U.S. Army‘s medical communications for combat casualty care product management office to support the service branch’s military health records system modernization project. The company said Thursday it will develop a medical information system for the Army to manage electronic medical records of service […] More

  • Dicom Systems Awarded DoD Dental Records Archiving Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dicom Systems Awarded DoD Dental Records Archiving Contract

    Dicom Systems has received a contract from the Defense Department’s dental information systems center in San Antonio, Texas to provide a technology platform for DISC to migrate and archive exams data from more than 150 U.S. Army dental clinics. DISC will transition more than 27 million dental exams from the center’s archive into the company’s Unifier Enterprise […] More

  • NIKA to Design New Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic; Kabir Chaudhary Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIKA to Design New Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic; Kabir Chaudhary Comments

    Architecture and engineering firm NIKA has been awarded a $1 million contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs to design a new outpatient clinic in Riverview, Florida for the VA. Hokanson Companies will lead the project scheduled for completion by 2018 and Doster Construction Company will be responsible for construction aspects for the 50,000-square-foot South Hillsborough outpatient […] More

  • McKesson Unveils New EHR Platform; Christopher Ryan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McKesson Unveils New EHR Platform; Christopher Ryan Comments

    McKesson has introduced an electronic health record platform that works to help pharmacies, laboratories and operating rooms facilitate workflow management. The Paragon 14.0 EHR system from McKesson Enterprise Information Solutions has a computerized physician order entry tool and can be integrated with the company’s OneContent enterprise resource planning system designed to facilitate storage and retrieval […] More

  • ATCC Lands NCI Contract to Build Cancer Models Distribution Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ATCC Lands NCI Contract to Build Cancer Models Distribution Infrastructure

    ATCC has been awarded a contract by the National Cancer Institute to develop a technology infrastructure to support the production, intake and distribution of cancer cell lines for the international research community. The company said Wednesday it will build the infrastructure for the Human Cancer Models Initiative that aims to generate as many as 1,000 new cancer cell models. HCMI is a […] More

  • Sutter Health, Validic Collaborate to Support Federal Health Data Delivery Pilot Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sutter Health, Validic Collaborate to Support Federal Health Data Delivery Pilot Project

    Sutter Health and Validic have teamed up to support a federal pilot project that aims  to identify strategies for the delivery of patient-generated health data to medical service  providers and researchers. Validic said Wednesday results of the collaborative effort will help inform government policy and provide insight on how the industry can implement remotely-collected patient health information in the U.S. The […] More

  • 2 Johns Hopkins Institutions Launch Joint Effort to Help Transform Healthcare Delivery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    2 Johns Hopkins Institutions Launch Joint Effort to Help Transform Healthcare Delivery

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Johns Hopkins Medicine have partnered with the goal to help transform diagnosis and treatment of diseases through data analytics and systems engineering methods. APL said Monday the partnership seeks to bring together the Individualized Health Initiative and other Johns Hopkins assets in the field of precision medicine as well as to develop a “learning health system” […] More

  • Aethlon Medical Completes Milestones Under DARPA Therapeutics Contract; Jim Joyce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aethlon Medical Completes Milestones Under DARPA Therapeutics Contract; Jim Joyce Comments

    An Aethlon Medical-developed medical device designed to eliminate viral pathogens from the circulatory system of infected patients has passed a milestone validation on its capacity to capture the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus. Aethlon said Thursday it has completed multiple milestones under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract such as the Hemopurifier stage and 29 other checkpoints […] More