Healthcare IT

Battelle, ExThera Medical and NxStage Medical have collaborated to develop a medical device for treating sepsis under a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Battelle will work to review the safety and efficacy aspects of ExThera’s Seraph Microbind Affinity Blood Filter as part of the Dialysis-Like Therapeutics device program, Battelle said Wednesday. “Battelle […] More

The U.S. Defense Department’s health services provider is seeking a contractor to support medical information technology systems across the military. In a notice published Friday on FedBizOpps, the Defense Health Agency said it would issue potential five-year contract for global help desk support related to the military health system. DHA wants a vendor who can […] More

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has partnered with DigitalGlobe to offer geospatial intelligence and mapping products for government and private organizations that conduct Ebola response operations in West Africa. DigitalGlobe said Wednesday the agency introduced Image City Map GEOINT products that are based on the company’s satellite imagery and human geography data sets and designed to […] More

Grant McLaughlin, a Booz Allen Hamilton vice president, predicts that consumers’ perceived advantages of information technology will drive electronic health systems adoption among clinicians and patients, HealthITAnalytics reported Monday. “The expectation is, ‘Well, if I can get it in the rest of my life, why can’t I get it here too?’  I think consumers are […] More

A new market report has projected an 8.60 percent compound annual growth rate for the healthcare and life sciences information technology outsourcing market from 2015 to 2019. Reportstack said Tuesday healthcare providers enlist third-party vendors to provide enterprise IT infrastructure and application management services. According to the report, cloud computing is among the outsourced technologies […] More

Carestream Health has obtained Defense Department authorization to provide the company’s picture archiving and communications systems to U.S. Navy-run hospitals. The Vue PACS technology is approved to operate on the branch’s network and certified as security compliant under the DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process, Carestream said Monday. Medical facilities use PACS to store […] More

IBM Corp. has been awarded a $6.8 million contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs to collect and analyze electronic health records and medical literature. The company will search and present medical records using its Watson cognitive technology under the two-year pilot research, VA said Monday. Carolyn Clancy, VA interim undersecretary for health, said the pilot […] More

Tom Rodgers, formerly Cambia Health’s venture investment lead, has returned to McKesson Corp. as managing director and head of that company’s newly launched venture capital fund. He will lead McKesson Ventures’ efforts to invest in early- and growth-stage companies that provide services to the healthcare industry, McKesson said Wednesday. “McKesson Ventures will help us support the […] More

Horace Blackman, Lockheed Martin’s vice president of health and life sciences, attributes new business growth opportunities to the federal health information technology market, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Jay Hancock writes Lockheed Martin’s business with the Department of Health and Human Services has more than doubled to $300 million annually since 2006. “The biggest opportunities I would point to are efforts associated […] More

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a contract to Systems Made Simple to help the agency create new mobile applications for managing veterans’ healthcare. VA seeks to develop apps intended to help veterans monitor their health, access medical information and connect with providers, Systems Made Simple said. The company will work with VA’s […] More

A new IDC report has underscored the need for healthcare organizations to pour more investments not just in cyber attack response but also in detection and mitigation, noting that the frequency of a breach will only continue to accelerate. “For healthcare organizations, it’s not a matter of if they are going to be attacked but […] More

IBM and Computer Programs and Systems will collaborate on a healthcare project that seeks to leverage predictive analytics technology to help rural and community hospitals cut readmission rates. CPSI and its TruBridge subsidiary plan to use IBM’s SPSS Modeler data mining and analytics platform to identify patients at increased risk of readmission in hospitals participating […] More