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  • AWS, NIH Partner to Foster Biomedical Innovation With Cloud Tech; Teresa Carlson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS, NIH Partner to Foster Biomedical Innovation With Cloud Tech; Teresa Carlson Quoted

    The National Institutes of Health has partnered with Amazon Web Services to help agency-backed researchers incorporate cloud-based technologies into biomedical research efforts. AWS said Tuesday it will host various NIH data sets, such as those covered by privacy and security policies, as part of the Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability initiative. Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon […] More

  • Battelle to Support CDC Lead Surveillance Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Support CDC Lead Surveillance Systems

    Battelle has won a contract to assist the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in efforts to monitor and cut the risk of lead poisoning in children and households. The nonprofit said Tuesday it will provide software development and data management services for CDC’s Healthy Housing Lead Poisoning Surveillance System and Childhood Blood Lead Surveillance platform. The contract […] More

  • Leidos Subsidiary Launches Mobile Clinics for Military Vets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Subsidiary Launches Mobile Clinics for Military Vets

    Leidos‘ QTC subsidiary has deployed two mobile clinics to provide healthcare support to military veterans who live in rural areas. The clinics’ staff will accommodate veterans seeking general medicine, mental health, vision, audiology, otolaryngology, radiology, laboratory examination and cardiology evaluation services, Leidos said Tuesday. Each clinic is equipped with commercial medical equipment, two exam rooms, […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Demos Trauma Prediction Tool at Army Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Demos Trauma Prediction Tool at Army Event

    Charles River Analytics showcased a tool built to predict traumatic injury at an open house held last month at U.S. Army‘s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center in Georgia. The company said Wednesday it presented during the event its EPIC3 application meant to aid in medical screening of wounded soldiers and help combat medics predict patient outcomes such as […] More

  • Cerner Forms Industry Team for VA Electronic Health Care Record Modernization Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cerner Forms Industry Team for VA Electronic Health Care Record Modernization Effort

    Cerner has formed an organization of private firms that will help perform a potential 10-year, $10B contract to modernize the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health care record. The EHR modernization team will resume the health information technology company’s work in meeting the medical needs of veterans, Cerner said Wednesday. VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said the team […] More

  • Leidos Joins Cerner-Led Team to Support VA’s EHR System Modernization; Jerry Hogge Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Joins Cerner-Led Team to Support VA’s EHR System Modernization; Jerry Hogge Quoted

    Leidos has joined a Cerner-led team to upgrade the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health record system through the deployment of the same EHR platform used at the Defense Department’s medical facilities worldwide. “As lead systems integrator for the DoD’s Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) program, we are pleased that the deployment of MHS […] More

  • Booz Allen Secures FDA IT Life Cycle Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Secures FDA IT Life Cycle Support Contract

    Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a potential $36M contract to support an information technology platform the Food and Drug Administration uses to monitor adverse drug events. The company subsequently received a $5.6M initial task order under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity that covers IT life cycle services for FDA Adverse Event Reporting System, according to a notice posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps. Work […] More

  • VMware's Rob Sherry: System Users are Fundamental to EHR Modernization Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware’s Rob Sherry: System Users are Fundamental to EHR Modernization Projects

    Rob Sherry, senior director of federal health care at VMware, has shared lessons that he believes information technology professionals could learn from the Defense Department’s project to modernize the military electronic health records system, Fedscoop reported Tuesday. He told the publication in an interview IT leaders should help end users adapt to EHR system changes and […] More

  • DHS Requests Info on Surveillance System for Biothreat Response Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Requests Info on Surveillance System for Biothreat Response Missions

    The Department of Homeland Security has posted a request for information to determine the availability of a nationwide subscription-based system of early medical data integrators and users that can help the DHS to respond to biological threats. A FedBizOpps notice posted Sept. 13 says DHS’ National Biosurveillance Integration Center looks to use a platform that […] More

  • Leidos Named Black Book 2018 Top Health IT Consultant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Named Black Book 2018 Top Health IT Consultant

    Black Book Market Research has named Leidos the top health information technology consultant for 2018 after the company obtained the highest ratings for customer satisfaction among 142 consultant firms. Black Book based its evaluation on polls answered by more than 2K healthcare organizations from the first quarter to the third quarter of this year, Leidos said […] More

  • CDC, IBM Partner to Develop Blockchain-Based Health Data Security Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CDC, IBM Partner to Develop Blockchain-Based Health Data Security Platform

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has partnered with IBM to develop a system that would collect and secure information on public health issues using blockchain technology, Fast Company reported Tuesday. The blockchain-based platform will help the CDC coordinate with medical providers regarding patient information, including health conditions. IBM will offer its cloud systems […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Gets Additional Army Funds for Casualty Care Mobile App Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Gets Additional Army Funds for Casualty Care Mobile App Development

    The U.S. Army has awarded Charles River Analytics a 29-month, $1M contract to continue to develop a mobile application designed to predict outcomes in military patients with traumatic injury. Charles River said Thursday it aims to help the service branch cut the rate of preventable trauma deaths through the Ensemble Prediction for Combat Casualty Care tool. Max Metzger, principal […] More