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Leidos Launches 1st Overseas Wave of MHS Genesis Deployment; Liz Porter Quoted

Leidos has completed deployment of the MHS Genesis electronic military health record to 9,000 medical providers and clinicians outside the contiguous United States. The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health said Tuesday that the first wave of overseas distribution brings the platform's deployment rate to 91 percent.

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by Jamie Bennet October 18, 2023, 9:18 am
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ARPA-H Selects 6 Projects to Advance Digital Health Security Technologies

The Department of Health and Human Services' Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has selected six projects to receive $50 million in funding under the Digital Health Security program to address cybersecurity threats to the U.S. health care system. The research projects will advance technologies to protect digital health software and hardware against cyber threats by enabling institutions to automate medical device patching, implement cyber reasoning techniques, employ cognitive health assistants, consolidate electronic health records and mitigate ransomware attacks.

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by Naomi Cooper October 3, 2023, 9:49 am
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Leidos’ Srini Iyer: Robust Security Needed to Protect Federal Health Care Data in the Cloud

Srini Iyer, senior vice president and chief technology officer for the health group at Leidos, said government health providers looking to adopt cloud technologies to improve patient outcomes should strengthen security to protect health care data. “Security in the cloud environment is a shared responsibility,” Iyer told Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman in a video […] More

by Jane Edwards August 24, 2023, 8:43 am
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Leidos Health Group CTO Srini Iyer Discusses Importance of Data Strategy in Health Care Service Delivery

Srini Iyer, chief technology officer of Leidos’ health group, said he believes having an overall data strategy is essential to promote health equity and improve health outcomes. In an interview on Forum’s Keeping IT Brief podcast, Iyer discusses the challenges in health data management that justify why public and private health organizations should have comprehensive […] More

by Jamie Bennet June 26, 2023, 11:45 am
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Ventech Solutions, HITSS Establish JV to Offer Health Care Quality Data Management

Ventech Solutions and Hull IT Solutions & Services have launched H-Tech Solutions as a joint venture resulting from the Small Business Administration’s Mentor-Protege Program to offer services in health care quality data management. Service-disabled veteran-owned small business H-Tech Solutions specializes in software development, data science and integration, cloud services and cybersecurity, among others, Ventech said […] More

by Regina Garcia June 16, 2023, 11:31 am
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Leidos Partnership Completes Rollout of MHS Genesis in CONUS; Liz Porter Quoted

Leidos and its partners completed their continental United States deployment of Military Health System Genesis, the new electronic health record system of the Department of Defense. The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health launched the system at seven military treatment facilities in five states as well as for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in six […] More

by Jamie Bennet June 16, 2023, 11:31 am
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Google Releases AI-Based Tools to Support Biotech Drug Discovery, Public Health Initiatives

Google‘s cloud business created a pair of artificial intelligence technology suites in a bid to provide life sciences and public sector organizations with secure online tools to shorten time-to-market of drug development. The Target and Lead Identification Suite uses AI to predict antibody structures and identify the function of amino acid mutagenesis, Google said Tuesday. […] More

by Jamie Bennet May 16, 2023, 11:28 am
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CGI Joins HL7 to Align With International Health Data Standards; Steve Sousa Quoted

CGI has been named a benefactor member of Health Level Seven International, a standards development organization that aims to enable interoperability in global health information systems. With the company’s HL7 membership, its personnel will be trained and certified in the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard for exchanging electronic health records, according to Steve Sousa, a […] More

by Naomi Cooper May 1, 2023, 11:53 am
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DOD Invests in Expansion of Wearable Infectious Disease Detector Project

The Department of Defense has infused an additional $10 million into the Defense Innovation Unit’s Rapid Assessment of Threat Exposure project, which tested a wearable technology prototype for early detection of COVID-19. The funding enables the RATE program to include 4,500 new devices in its study and expand distribution of the technology within the department, DIU said […] More

by Jamie Bennet April 27, 2023, 11:51 am
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BodiMetrics Taps Carahsoft to Market Circul+ Sensor-Based Oximeter; Tim Boltz Quoted

Carahsoft Technology and BodiMetrics will distribute the latter’s wellness pulse oximeter and sleep monitoring device ring to customers in the U.S. federal market. Tim Boltz, director of healthcare strategy at Carahsoft, said in a statement published Tuesday the company will make Bodimetrics’ Circul+ Ring available to public health care agencies through the partnership. Circul+ Ring is designed […] More

by Regina Garcia April 26, 2023, 11:51 am
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Cloudera’s Rob Carey: CIOs Should Merge IT Elements Into Singular Platform to Better Manage Data

Rob Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions, said that information technology capabilities are being used today to help solve social challenges that could not be previously addressed through paper-based or physical data. In an interview with Healthcare IT Today, Carey shared his experiences and lessons as a chief information officer in the government, as well […] More

by Jamie Bennet April 14, 2023, 11:51 am
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CNSI, Kepro Eye Expanded Health Care Offerings via Merger; Todd Stottlemyer, Susan Weaver Quoted

Health information technology company CNSI and care management services provider Kepro have agreed to merge into a new organization with expanded capabilities to support government-sponsored health care programs. In a joint statement released Wednesday, the companies said CNSI CEO Todd Stottlemyer will take the helm of the new organization while Kepro President and CEO Susan […] More

by Christine Thropp November 9, 2022, 11:55 am