Healthcare IT

Accenture and Avanade have been selected to migrate the email service of England’s Health Department and Scotland’s National Health Service to a new cloud-based platform in a move to help social workers collaborate. The companies will implement a new directory and Lync collaboration technology for instant messaging, voice over Internet protocol, audio and video communication, […] More

The Department of Veterans Affairs is field-testing new mobile applications that work to help healthcare providers and patients connect with the VA’s Vista electronic health records system, FCW reported Wednesday. Adam Mazmanian writes that the Mobile Blue Button and Summary of Care apps as well as the upcoming Patient Viewer app work to provide mobile access and control to […] More

Xerox has received a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services certification in New Hampshire for a platform the company built to process Medicaid applications. The company said Tuesday its Xerox Health Enterprise system received the certification after the roduct passed the Medicaid Enterprise Certification Toolkit’s federal requirements. New Hampshire Medicaid has used the platform since March 2013 to manage enrollment of members, […] More

The Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace’s board of directors has chosen CSG Government Solutions to assess how the organization implements its small business health options program. CSG will perform independent verification and validation services both on AHIM’s technology implementation for the program and its compliance with the Affordable Care Act, CSG said Tuesday. “By leveraging our IV&V […] More

The U.S. Army‘s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center is looking into commercial software and related service offerings to supplement the military branch’s mobile health information technology infrastructure. In a request for information published June 9 on FedBizOpps, the Army said its Mobile Health Care Environment System is designed to employ government and commercial off-the-shelf […] More

CACI International has chosen MicroPact‘s entellitrak software platform to support the former company’s task order contract with the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals within the Department of Health and Human Services. MicroPact said Wednesday CACI will use entellitrak to develop an appeals case management system for OMHA as the agency’s Electronic Case Adjudication and Processing Environment. Kris Collo, president and CEO […] More

The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Remote Medical International a potential eight-year, $300 million contract to deliver HIV diagnostic kits to USAID and the agency’s partner organizations. RMI said Tuesday the contract has an initial value of $95 million and comes under USAID’s Global Health Supply Chain Program. USAID launched the $10.5 billion initiative […] More

The General Services Administration plans to include special item numbers for health information technology and cybersecurity offerings on the IT Schedule 70 acquisition vehicle, Federal Times reported Wednesday. Aaron Boyd writes Soundjata Carty, a contracting officer at GSA’s Office of Integrated Technology Services, said the agency could publish a request for information in the coming […] More

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to contract a vendor to help redesign and maintain a public-facing website run by the agency’s office of population affairs. HHS said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday it is looking for a contractor that can also support a clinic database for the Title X Family […] More

AultCare has selected LexisNexis to provide a suite of clinical analytics services in order to help process health insurance and benefits claims. LexisNexis will help AultCare identify risk and measuring performance for commercial, Medicare Advantage, individual and patient-centered medical home members, LexisNexis said Tuesday. Lee Rivas, public sector and healthcare CEO at LexisNexis, said the predictive analytics services […] More

Cisco will set up a 900-square-feet showroom at the Global Center for Health Innovation in Cleveland, Ohio, to demonstrate a range of medical information technology platforms. The company said Tuesday its Healthcare Customer eXperience Center would showcase interactive displays, collaboration tools, data analytics and telemedicine systems. Barbara Casey, senior practice director for healthcare transformation at Cisco, […] More

Lockheed Martin and Wyle Laboratories have submitted research proposals for a new program that seeks to examine potential health issues that astronauts may encounter during deep-space missions. The companies’ submissions are among 24 research projects that will receive $12.9 million in total funds from NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, NSBRI said Thursday. […] More