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Behind The Ballooning Medical E-Records Cost

Gina Mangieri | KHON2 | February 10, 2014

A system that’s supposed to revolutionize health care in Hawaii is costing the state’s taxpayer-supported hospitals more than double the originally projected cost at the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation — the quasipublic agency that runs the state’s primarily rural hospitals. Read More »

CMS Awarded Accenture No-Bid Contract On Healthcare.gov

Brian Kalish | Health Data Management | January 22, 2014

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not believe CGI Federal, its former Healthcare.gov contractor, could complete its work on the site in time, and thus selected Accenture as the new contractor with a no-bid $90 million-plus contract, according to documents. Read More »

CSSi Awarded VA T4 Task Order On Health IT

Staff Writer | CivSource | December 10, 2013

Federal contractor CSSi, has been awarded a prime contract for Flow Improvement Initiative Support Services as part of the Veterans Affairs Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) Contract Vehicle. [...] Read More »

Department Of Veterans Affairs Standardizes On CenTrak's Clinical-Grade Real-Time Location System™ (RTLS) To Improve Operational Efficiency And Quality Of Veteran Care

Press Release | CenTrak | March 4, 2013

CenTrak today announced the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has chosen its active-RTLS infrastructure to location-enable all of the VA's hospitals, clinics and consolidated mail outpatient pharmacies as a subcontractor to HP. Read More »

DoD Allocates $70 Million To Medical Imaging

Erin McCann | Government Health IT | January 6, 2014

Ramping up investments in digital radiography and medical imaging systems, the U.S. Department of Defense awarded a one-year $70.2 million contract extension to imaging provider Carestream Health. Read More »

Harris Corporation Awarded $60 Million IT Contract To Expand National Healthcare Mobility Infrastructure

Press Release | Harris Corporation | October 17, 2013

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded the final phase of a three-phase program that will enable the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct critical services wirelessly. The contract is valued at $60 million over four years, with all options exercised. Read More »

Hospital Takes EHR Heavyweight To Court

Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | January 6, 2014

A rural Montana hospital has filed suit against big name electronic health record system provider NextGen Healthcare, alleging the company violated its contract by both failing to install an EHR system by the set deadline and not providing a system that meets 2014 federal meaningful use criteria. Read More »

Pentagon Kicks Off Procurement To Maintain Current Health Record Until 2018

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | January 2, 2014

The Defense Health Agency has kicked off a procurement to sustain the current Defense Department electronic health record system through the end of 2018, potentially pushing back deployment of a new military EHR until 2019. Read More »

Queensland Health Accused of Bias Towards IT Supplier Cerner Corporation [Australia]

Koren Helbig | The Courier-Mail | January 23, 2012

Confidential papers show a Health boss already was in talks with software company Cerner Corporation at least a year before consultants were hired to conduct an external investigation into potential suppliers. The electronic medical records project was even given the codename "Project Mango" to avoid constantly naming Cerner in official correspondence, the papers said. Read More »

U.S. Department Of Veteran Affairs Awards $28.8 Million TeleHealth Contract To AMC Health

Press Release | AMC Health | September 4, 2013

AMC Health, a leading provider of telehealth solutions, announced today that the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has awarded the company a five-year contract worth up to $28.8 million to provide telehealth solutions and services... Read More »

UK: E-Referrals To Be Open Source

Rebecca Todd | E-Health Insider | May 28, 2013

Two suppliers have been shortlisted to develop an open source ‘NHS e-referrals service’ that will be officially launched next month. Beverley Bryant, NHS England's director of strategic systems and technology, told EHI that plans for a new e-referrals service had been given the “green light”. Read More »

VA Awards ASM Research A Health IT Contract Triple The Price Of Competitors’ Bids

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | November 5, 2013

The Veterans Affairs Department awarded ASM Research a $162.5 million contract to improve the user experience for VA’s electronic health record system, a price more than triple two competitive bids, Nextgov has learned. The Sept. 30 contract award is for improvements to the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, known as VistA. Read More »

VA Inks $543M RTLS Contract For 152 Medical Centers Nationwide

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | February 21, 2013

The Department of Veterans Affairs has tapped HP Enterprise Services and Intelligent InSites for a $543 million contract to deploy real-time locating system technology in VA medical centers nationwide. Read More »