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  • ViraCyte Secures NIH, FDA Grants to Develop, Test T-Cell Immunotherapies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViraCyte Secures NIH, FDA Grants to Develop, Test T-Cell Immunotherapies

    ViraCyte has secured $3.75 million in contracts from the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to continue development work on cellular immunotherapies designed to protect stem cell transplant recipients from severe infections. NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute awarded ViraCyte a $3 million contract to advance clinical development of a T-cell immunotherapy […] More

  • VA to Adopt COTS Platform for EHR System Modernization; Leidos’ Jerry Hogge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA to Adopt COTS Platform for EHR System Modernization; Leidos’ Jerry Hogge Comments

    The Department of Veterans Affairs opted to adopt a commercial off-the-shelf platform to manage its electronic health records by awarding a sole-source contract to Cerner in June, E-Commerce Times reported Friday. The commercial EHR system from Cerner will replace VA’s current VistA platform and is designed to be interoperable with the Defense Dapartment’s EHR tool. DoD selected […] More

  • Roger Krone: Leidos Eyes Future VA EHR System Integration Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Krone: Leidos Eyes Future VA EHR System Integration Support

    Leidos CEO Roger Krone has said he believes the company could help the Department of Veterans Affairs integrate a commercial electronic health records system with VA’s current VistA platform, FCW reported Tuesday. Krone, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, told investors June 14 that Leidos has engaged in “top-level conversations” with VA officials to […] More

  • Tiag to Build Wellness & Performance Tracking Platform for Navy Sailors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tiag to Build Wellness & Performance Tracking Platform for Navy Sailors

    Reston, Virginia-based technology services provider tiag will design and build an expanded version of its performance tracking system for the U.S. Navy. The company said Tuesday it will evolve the Warrior Performance Platform into an interactive Human Performance Self-Service Kiosk in an effort to provide sailors access to wellness and nutrition information tailored to their individual fitness goals. The HPSSK will also work to integrate with various personal electronic devices and […] More

  • IBM’s Keith Salzman: Health IT Platforms Should Be Designed With Cybersecurity in Mind - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s Keith Salzman: Health IT Platforms Should Be Designed With Cybersecurity in Mind

    Keith Salzman, chief medical information officer for global business services at IBM’s federal business, has said that health information technology platforms should be designed for users and should be equipped with cybersecurity tools and features that protect privacy in order to realize the benefits of health care digitization. Salzman told Dan Chenok, executive director of IBM’s Center for the […] More

  • Optum, VA Pick 3 Teams to Develop Medical Tech for Military Vets with Brain Injuries - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Optum, VA Pick 3 Teams to Develop Medical Tech for Military Vets with Brain Injuries

    The Department of Veterans Affairs and Optum have selected three finalists from the “Demo Day” competition of the 2nd annual Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion to pilot medical technologies that can help clinicians to prevent, diagnose or treat veterans who have experienced traumatic brain injuries. Optum said Friday The Daptly Display, Save a Warrior and King-Devick Technologies were selected out of 15 […] More

  • CMS Explores Potential Maintenance Support Sources for Health Plan Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CMS Explores Potential Maintenance Support Sources for Health Plan Mgmt System

    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a request for information on potential contractors that can help the agency update and maintain a web-based data system that supports CMS’ Medicare Advantage and Part D, also known as Prescription Drug, programs. CMS said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday the Health Plan Management System works to oversee […] More

  • Document Storage Systems to Develop Online Patient Self-Scheduling Tool for VA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Document Storage Systems to Develop Online Patient Self-Scheduling Tool for VA

    Document Storage Systems has received a potential $19.6 million contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop and deliver an online system that works to help military retirees schedule and modify medical appointments. VA awarded the contract to the Juno Beach, Florida-based health information technology platforms provider under a pilot program created in compliance […] More

  • Indigenous Technologies-Telos Team to Help Manage Indian Health Service IT Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Indigenous Technologies-Telos Team to Help Manage Indian Health Service IT Network

    The Department of Health and Human Services has selected a team composed of Indigenous Technologies and Telos to help operate the Indian Health Service‘s information technology network that supports care services delivery for American Indian and Alaska Native people. The team will host infrastructure engineering and operations services through a Telos facility in Las Vegas and help IHS […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Mobile Warfighter Health Analytics Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Mobile Warfighter Health Analytics Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on May 16 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss a program that aims to develop mobile technology to assess warfighters’ health condition and combat readiness. DARPA said May 2 the Warfighter Analytics using Smartphones for Health program seeks to use data from cellphone sensors to develop algorithms that can run passive, […] More

  • Booz Allen, Kaggle Name Winners of 2017 'Data Science Bowl' Contest - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Kaggle Name Winners of 2017 ‘Data Science Bowl’ Contest

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle have unveiled the winners of a global crowdsourcing competition that sought data science methods to develop lung cancer detection formulas and technologies. The third annual Data Science Bowl drew nearly 10,000 participants who submitted  algorithms designed to help clinicians detect lung cancer, Booz Allen said Tuesday. The National Cancer Institute provided access to a publicly-available data set of […] More

  • Coast Guard Looks at Commercial EHR Platform Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coast Guard Looks at Commercial EHR Platform Sources

    Interested vendors have until May 26 to respond to a U.S. Coast Guard request for information on the possibility of replacing the service branch’s paper-based health data documentation system with an electronic health records system. USCG currently explores potential industry sources of an integrated Electronic Health Record Acquisition platform that can work to secure personally identifiable information and personal health information, according to […] More