Cerner, 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 replacement electronic health-record system for the Defense Department's health system.
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 replacement electronic health-record system for the Defense Department's health system.

The companies join an increasingly crowded field of companies vying for the business. Earlier this week Computer Sciences Corp., Hewlett-Packard and Allscripts announced they would bid for the 10-year contract estimated to be worth $11 billion.
The Military Health System includes 56 hospitals and roughly 360 clinics serving 9.6 million beneficiaries and a hodgepodge of clinical information systems. The EHR to replace them all will need to scale up to serve 146,000 MHS personnel.

On June 11, IBM Corp. and Epic Systems Corp. announced they intend to bid on what's being called the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization project, or DHMSM, pronounced “dim sum.” Systems integrator Accenture Federal Services is a subsidiary of the consulting firm Accenture. Leidos, based in Reston, Va., was previously part of Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC, and was spun off this year....