Healthcare IT

System Plus Inc. has won a $39.9 million contract to support the Defense Health Agency‘s global clinical system training mission as DHA prepares to implement the new Genesis military health system. The company will develop a training support concept for the agency’s enterprise systems not included in previous training contracts as well as provide applications support beyond the agency’s clinical portfolio, the Defense […] More

The Defense Department and nonprofit health system SSM Health have partnered to exchange electronic health records of DoD’s active-duty service members, civilian employees, retirees and dependents. The partnership authorizes SSM Health-affiliated care providers in Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma to access patient records of DoD employees, dependents and retirees while the department can also access SSM Health’s records, the nonprofit said Wednesday. Richard Vaughn, […] More

An Accenture subsidiary has received a potential 16-month, $7.8 million contract from the Defense Health Agency to develop, test and field a joint platform designed to support the credentialing process for health care providers between the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. ASM Research will build a tool based on DoD’s Credentials Quality Assurance System […] More

The Defense Department has approved an electronic health information exchange between Fort Drum’s medical department activity and community healthcare providers in New York. Under the initiative, Fort Drum MEDDAC has integrated the medical electronic records of soldiers and their families into HealtheConnections‘ data exchange system, the Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization said Wednesday. The partnership aims to prevent duplicate medical procedures and […] More

SAB Biotherapeutics has received a $1.42 million Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund the production and preclinical testing of an antibody the company designed to treat influenza. The company said Wednesday it teamed up with the University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine for the project under the BioSNTR program that works to […] More

Research and Markets predicts the global healthcare information technology market will grow at an annual rate of 13.4 percent to reach $228.79 billion by 2020. The company said in a report published in August that efforts to reduce medical costs and regulations for safety and security of patient data will drive the demand for healthcare IT offerings through 2020. Data management requirements from […] More

The General Services Administration has included its new special item number for health information technology offerings in Octo Consulting Group‘s IT Schedule 70 contract with GSA. GSA implemented the 132-56 SIN to help federal customers access and procure healthcare IT products from commercial providers, Octo Consulting said Sunday. “Octo Consulting Group has always had a strong focus on health IT as demonstrated by our […] More

A U.S. subsidiary of Takeda Group has received an initial $19.8 million contract from  the Department of Health and Human Services to develop and test a Zika virus vaccine over the next 18 months. HHS’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority will provide funds to help Takeda Vaccines complete process development and preclinical tests of the company’s vaccine candidate against the virus, HHS […] More

Hawaii Biotech Inc. has been selected to develop a vaccine against chikungunya virus under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant from the National Institutes of Health‘s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The biotechnology company said Tuesday it will collaborate with the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Baylor College of Medicine on the project. David Clements, director of […] More

The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has unveiled the winners of the “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge.” HHS said Monday winning papers were selected based on criteria that included proposed systems and recommendations for market viability, capacity to inform and foster transformative change, creativity […] More

AlloSource, a nonprofit cellular and tissue network, has partnered with NASA and the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to conduct microbial research in an effort to help improve medical care for astronauts who fly into space. A team of AlloSource, NASA and JPL scientists aims to determine the effects of zero gravity on antibiotic resistant genes in microorganisms taken […] More

Keith Salzman, chief medical information officer at IBM‘s global business services unit, said an emerging ledger technology from Bitcoin software developer Blockchain can potentially help update healthcare information technology systems across the economy and in government. Salzman wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the Blockchain technology uses cryptography to manage what network participants can view to fortify […] More