Healthcare IT

Apple and the Department of Veterans Affairs are in talks to develop tools to help approximately nine million former service members access electronic health records with the use of iPhones, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The report said Apple also offered to provide engineering support to the department through the proposed partnership. The technology firm aims to […] More

BrainScope has delivered more than 170 handheld medical devices and more than 7.5K headsets to help the U.S. Army assess service members who may have experienced a mild traumatic brain injury. The company said Tuesday its BrainScope One technology uses electroencephalogram and other quantitative parameters to examine functional abnormalities and structural injuries that cause TBI. The Food and […] More

General Dynamics‘ information technology business can vie for task orders to help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services manage quality of the federal health care system under a potential 10-year, $1.6B contract awarded in August. The company said Friday it will continue to support CMS in the next decade as the agency looks to develop and implement health care […] More

Octo Consulting has won an approximately $75M multiyear contract to support the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, which operates under the National Institutes of Health. Octo will provide IT services and ServiceNow cloud implementation support to the CBIIT to help the institute address its IT needs and further its cancer treatment […] More

Cerner has announced that the Defense Department has started to see improvements in health care services delivery following the initial deployment of its new electronic health records platform, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Travis Dalton, president of government services at Cerner, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the adoption of the MHS Genesis system has resulted […] More

The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Emerging Sun a contract of an undisclosed value to conduct a research project with the goal of modernizing the Indian Health Service’s information technology systems. HHS said Wednesday Pistis and the Regenstrief Institute will support the multistage effort over the next year as subcontractors to Emerging Sun. The team will work to […] More

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 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‘ 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 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 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 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