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  • Deltek Sees Health IT as Potential Growth Area for Federal Contractors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Sees Health IT as Potential Growth Area for Federal Contractors

    Deltek projects U.S. government spending on electronic health record systems and other health information technology platforms to reach almost $5 billion by 2019, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Angie Petty, a Deltek senior principal research analyst, writes that federal programs and rules for health data management could accelerate use of EHRs, telemedicine and HIT analytics or cloud tools across […] More

  • Jay Whitehurst: TCS Designs Telemedicine Tool for Mobile, Web Health Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jay Whitehurst: TCS Designs Telemedicine Tool for Mobile, Web Health Services

    TeleCommunication Systems has developed a new video telemedicine platform for healthcare providers and workers in a North Carolina-based independent emergency medicine group to remotely consult with more than 300,000 patients per year. TCS said Monday that the Wake Emergency Physicians, PA group will be the first healthcare organization to implement TCS’ VirtuMedix platform and the company will demonstrate the technology […] More

  • Darryl Shaw: Verizon Unveils IT Package for Healthcare Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Darryl Shaw: Verizon Unveils IT Package for Healthcare Sector

    Verizon Enterprise Solutions has released new HIPAA-ready healthcare technologies to manage the exchange of electronic patient health information and inquiries from both patients and healthcare professionals on health services. “Healthcare is behind other industries when it comes to applying technology to the delivery of services due in part to today’s regulatory climate,” Darryl Shaw, director of healthcare solutions and new product […] More

  • Praescient Analytics: Data Analysis, Social Media, Crowdsourcing Key in Anti-Ebola Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Praescient Analytics: Data Analysis, Social Media, Crowdsourcing Key in Anti-Ebola Effort

    Praescient Analytics has highlighted three ways healthcare providers could apply to efforts to stop the spread of Ebola virus. Praescient said Wednesday that healthcare organizations could minimize the number of Ebola infections of their workers if low infection probability is factored into infection prevention protocols. The low infection probability is based on a comparison by Brookings Institution nonresident senior fellow […] More

  • HP to Extend Massachusetts Medicaid MIS Support for 5 Years; Susan Arthur Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP to Extend Massachusetts Medicaid MIS Support for 5 Years; Susan Arthur Comments

    Hewlett Packard has landed a five-year, $50 million contract to continue helping the Massachusetts Executive Office of Human and Health Services maintain the state’s Medicaid management information system. HP will continue to support the state Medicaid MIS infrastructure through June 2019 and will perform system upgrades to help agency personnel monitor providers’ e-health incentives, the […] More

  • Team DecisionSim to Develop Clinical Simulations for VA Training Program; James McGee Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Team DecisionSim to Develop Clinical Simulations for VA Training Program; James McGee Comments

    Team DecisionSim will continue to develop clinical simulations for the Veterans Affairs Department‘s simulation training and education program. VA has been applying the DecisionSim platform on patient safety, women’s health, palliative care, specialty care, team and communication skills training, human resources and operations areas, Decision Simulation said Wednesday. “We are excited about the VA’s continued expansion of DecisionSim and are honored to be a […] More

  • Craneware Buys Kestros, Appoints Russ Rudish to Board; Keith Neilson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Craneware Buys Kestros, Appoints Russ Rudish to Board; Keith Neilson Comments

    Craneware has bought Kestros Ltd. for $2.08 million in a move to bolster Craneware’s presence in the patient access market, Daily Record reported. Scott McCulloch writes that Edinburgh-based medical billing software developer Craneware plans to expand the use of Kestros’ technology platform from the National Health Service Trusts to the growing healthcare market. “This investment […] More

  • HHS Furthers Influenza Diagnostics Test with New Contracts; Robin Robinson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS Furthers Influenza Diagnostics Test with New Contracts; Robin Robinson Comments

    The Department of Health and Human Services has respectively awarded $12.9 million and $14.7 million contracts to Alere and InDevR to further develop influenza detection test methods. Alere will work to develop a method to identify a patient infected with influenza virus type A or B based on its iNAT Influenza A&B test, HHS said Wednesday. InDevR will also continue work on its FluChip-8G test to […] More

  • Steve Comber: Leidos Lands Tech Support Task Order for OneVA Enterprise Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Comber: Leidos Lands Tech Support Task Order for OneVA Enterprise Architecture

    Leidos will provide technical assistance for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ agency-wide modernization drive under a potential three-year, $25 million contract. “We’re proud to support the VA with its OneVA Enterprise Architecture program, designed to serve as a strategic planning and management tool that helps VA’s leadership chart the course for the department’s transformation into a […] More

  • IMS Lists Indicators of Change in Healthcare; Murray Aitken Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IMS Lists Indicators of Change in Healthcare; Murray Aitken Comments

    IMS Institute for Health Informatics recently published “Harbingers of Change in Healthcare,” a study listing ten game-changers in the global health scene. IMS Health said Tuesday it defines harbingers as “thresholds crossed, actions taken or decisions made triggered by innovations in technology, information use and connectedness of healthcare systems.” The list includes the greater engagement seen […] More

  • Study: Federal Mandates to Drive Up Health Analytics Spending - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Study: Federal Mandates to Drive Up Health Analytics Spending

    A report published by ReportLinker.com predicts that healthcare regulations and the perceived benefits of analytics technology use will help drive double-digit increases in the health analytics market over the next four years. The global market for healthcare analytics products could reach more than $10 billion in value by 2018 with a 22 percent compound annual […] More

  • Deltek: Federal Health IT Investments to Reach $5B by Fiscal 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek: Federal Health IT Investments to Reach $5B by Fiscal 2019

    A new Deltek report predicts federal spending on health information technology products and services will grow from $4.3 billion in fiscal 2014 to $4.8 billion in fiscal 2019. Deltek said Thursday the aging population, high medical costs and new healthcare programs for active-duty military as well as veterans are projected to drive federal HIT investment […] More