Healthcare IT

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 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

CH2M has received a $35 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and U.S. Strategic Command‘s Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction to aid both organizations’ efforts to help mitigate infectious diseases in West Africa. The contract covers support for national and local biosafety, biosecurity and biosurveillance work in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Senegal as part of the Defense Department‘s Cooperative […] More

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

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 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 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 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

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

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

Recombinetics has secured a pair of grants worth more than $700,000 combined from two National Institutes of Health organizations to create humanized swine models of Alzheimer’s disease and Neurofibromatosis type 2. The biotechnology company will develop the swine models for the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke under NIH’s Small Business Innovative Research […] More

Vecna has received a Defense Department accreditation and authorization to operate the company’s patient self-service check-in system on the DoD network. The DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process and ATO from the Defense Health Agency serve to clear Vecna’s system for DoD use with the department’s electronic health record and dental application, the company said Tuesday. The self-service […] More