Intermountain, Cerner Collaborate On Defense Health IT Bid
Cerner Corp., one of several major electronic health-record system vendors competing for a multibillion-dollar contract to replace the Military Health System's EHR, has entered what it terms a...
View ArticleIntermountain Healthcare Partners With Cerner To Provide Clinical Governance...
Cerner Leidos Partnership for Defense Health September 24, 2014Original URLCerner today announced a strategic agreement with Intermountain Healthcare to provide clinical governance of solutions and...
View ArticleGoogle, PwC Bidding for $11B DoD Health System Modernization Project
When Google and PricewaterhouseCoopers announced a business partnership last October, they described the move as an effort to jointly compete for large projects leveraging PwC's consulting experience...
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Google Joins VistA Team Proposing Open Source EHR for the Department of Defense
Google has thrown its hat into the EHR ring by joining the team led by PwC which is proposing that the Department of Defense (DoD) upgrade their current EHR to Defense Operational Readiness Health...
View ArticleEpic Grabs VA Software Contract
Epic, along with Lockheed Martin subsidiary Systems Made Simple, inked a five-year $624 million contract with Veterans Affairs. The deal is nowhere near the $4.3 billon that DoD awarded Cerner and...
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EHR debacle leads to paper-based care for Coast Guard servicemembers
The botched implementation of an electronic health records system sent Coast Guard doctors scurrying to copy digital records onto paper last fall and has disrupted health care for 50,000 active troops...
View ArticleDoD: New EHR not about interoperability with VA
When Defense Department officials briefed reporters prior to announcing that the Cerner, Leidos and Accenture team won its EHR modernization contract, they were adamant that so much speculation about...
View ArticleDoD Opens Bidding For Massive EHR And IT Modernization
...The broad DoD Healthcare Management Systems Modernization undertaking, aka DHMSM — dubbed “Dim-Sum” by industry insiders — puts as much as $11 billion at stake, so the biggest vendors and...
View ArticleDoD EHR Contract: Open Source Vs. Commercial
Pricewaterhouse Coopers and partner firms urge Department of Defense to consider open source VistA for EHR contract, vying against IBM/Epic and other commercial contenders.Read more in the full...
View ArticleDoD And Tech Firms Face Daunting Health-IT Challenge
"The DoD's electronic health record program is a large and extremely complex undertaking. There are a number of different vendors, players, technologies, organizations and politics involved, resulting...
View ArticleDefense Health Agency Signs AHLTA EHR Contract
The Defense Health Agency is moving closer to reworking its clinical information systems with a bridged contract engaging a Reston, Va.-based technology and defense company. Leidos, previously the...
View ArticleCerner, Leidos, Accenture Plan Joint Bid for Defense EHR Contract
Cerner Corp. has entered an alliance with experienced government contractors Leidos and Accenture Federal Services to make a play for the multibillion-dollar contract to build, install and configure a...
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Cerner Raises Costs on Department of Defense's New EHR
The Defense Department's giant health record effort just got a bit bigger – Cerner has bumped up its $50 million estimate on data center costs to about $75 million. The Defense Healthcare Management...
View Article8 Companies That Want A Piece Of The DoD's $11 Billion EHR Contract
Interest is starting to mount for the Department of Defense (DoD) contract to modernize the department's health system for more than 9.7 million military beneficiaries. With an $11 billion price tag,...
View ArticleAudit: DOD E-Health Timeline 'Not Realistic'
The Pentagon inspector general doesn't think the DOD can reach initial operational capability of its new $9 billion, "state-of-the-art" electronic health records system by December. The Defense...
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