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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
Vion will compete as the only small business original equipment manufacturer awardee on a 10-year, $20 billion governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services awarded by a National Institutes of Health office. The company said Thursday it will offer cloud and other IT products and services in the areas of health and life sciences via the Chief Information Officer – Commodities […] More
Informatica Corp. has integrated data for Connecticut’s health insurance marketplace, which the state established to fulfill Affordable Care Act requirements. Access Health CT began operations in September 2013 and has enrolled more than 282,000 Connecticut residents since, Informatica said Wednesday. Amit Walia, senior vice president and general manager of data integration and security at Informatica, […] More
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded $300,000 in total grants to six teams of developers and healthcare organizations that aim to live-test new health IT applications. The medical app developers were chosen and matched with healthcare providers through ONC’s Market R&D Challenge, according to a blog post published Tuesday […] More
IBM has partnered with Epic and the Mayo Clinic to help clinicians leverage IBM’s Watson cognitive computing system to access and analyze electronic health records. Epic seeks to integrate the IBM technology into clinical decision support tools that are based on open architecture and designed to offer providers insight from medical literature, IBM said Tuesday. […] More
Comprehensive Health Services Inc. has been selected to consult and train the U.S. Air Force’s healthcare teams under a five-year, $4.25 million subcontract awarded by Engineering and Computer Simulations. CHSi will provide medical modeling and simulation training to 2,500 Air Force personnel based in the U.S., U.K. and Japan, CHSi said Monday. “CHSi is honored to […] More
Computer Sciences Corp. has been selected to co-manage a local patient care coordination center in Trafford, U.K. CSC will provide patient communications through a unified system, perform clinical workflow services and analyze care delivery performance in collaboration with the British National Health Service’s Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group, CSC said Wednesday. Philippe Houssiau, vice president of U.K. healthcare at […] More
