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  • Octo Consulting Adopts New Health IT Special Item Number on GSA Schedule; Jay Shah Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Consulting Adopts New Health IT Special Item Number on GSA Schedule; Jay Shah Comments

    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

  • Takeda Subsidiary Lands HHS Contract to Develop, Test Zika Vaccine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Takeda Subsidiary Lands HHS Contract to Develop, Test Zika Vaccine

    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 Receives NIAID Grant for Chikungunya Virus Vaccine Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hawaii Biotech Receives NIAID Grant for Chikungunya Virus Vaccine Development

    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

  • HHS' ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS’ ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge

    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 Partners with NASA, JPL on Microbial Research; Peter Stevens Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AlloSource Partners with NASA, JPL on Microbial Research; Peter Stevens Comments

    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

  • IBM's Keith Salzman: Blockchain Ledger Tech Can Help Healthcare IT Community Address Security Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s Keith Salzman: Blockchain Ledger Tech Can Help Healthcare IT Community Address Security Issues

    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

  • VA Seeks Clinical Psychology Support Sources for Mobile Application Devt Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Seeks Clinical Psychology Support Sources for Mobile Application Devt Project

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun its search for potential industry sources of clinical psychology services to support the development of mobile applications. VA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Aug. 9 the sources sought notice is part of the agency’s market research effort for a potential one-year contract for the Clinical Research Psychologist […] More

  • The Sequoia Project Certifies CGI's CONNECT Open Source Platform for Use on eHealth Exchange - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    The Sequoia Project Certifies CGI’s CONNECT Open Source Platform for Use on eHealth Exchange

    The Sequoia Project has certified the use of CGI‘s CONNECT Gateway open source platform on the eHealth Exchange network for health information sharing. CGI said Monday the gateway works to support the dissemination of health information to more than 2,000 organizations such as federal agencies and health-related organizations. The company added it partnered with the U.S. Federal Health Architecture to deliver program management, […] More

  • Lovell Government Services to Offer Bodimetrics' Telehealth Devices Through VA Federal Supply Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lovell Government Services to Offer Bodimetrics’ Telehealth Devices Through VA Federal Supply Schedule

    Lovell Government Services and Bodimetrics have partnered to offer the latter’s portfolio of telehealth devices to the Department of Veterans Affairs and other federal agencies via the Federal Supply Schedule contracting vehicle. LGS will distribute Bodimetrics’ products through its FSS contract with the Veterans Health Administration or the General Services Administration‘s Advantage Online Catalog, Bodimetrics said Tuesday. “Our focus has been in furthering the development […] More

  • CSC Launches Healthcare IT-as-a-Service Platforms on UK's Digital Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC Launches Healthcare IT-as-a-Service Platforms on UK’s Digital Marketplace

    Computer Sciences Corp. has started to offer care coordination and population health as-a-service platforms to U.K. government agencies through the online G-Cloud marketplace. CSC said Monday its care coordination offering consists of business process services intended to help providers address referral management, complex care coordination, discharge management and patient access challenges. The services are supported by a delivery platform that includes a directory […] More

  • NeuroCog Trials Receives Federal Mental Health Assessment Tool Development Grant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NeuroCog Trials Receives Federal Mental Health Assessment Tool Development Grant

    NeuroCog Trials has received a $2 million grant from the the National Institute of Mental Health to gather additional normative data and internationalize a functional capacity assessment tool. NeuroCog Trials said Thursday the Virtual Reality Functional Capacity Assessment Tool was developed to serve as a platform to present a realistic and immersive environment to recreate routine activities of […] More

  • HHS Uses Esri's Mapping Software in Zika Virus Mitigation Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS Uses Esri’s Mapping Software in Zika Virus Mitigation Efforts

    Esri‘s geographic information system software is working to support the Department of Health and Human Services in efforts to track the spread of Zika virus and disseminate public information on the disease. The company said Wednesday HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response has used the GIS software to create a public interactive map that shows the number of […] More