Epic-IBM DoD EHR Modernization Award Bid Making Progress

Epic Systems and IBM continue to strengthen their pitch to land the $11-billion Department of Defense (DoD) EHR modernization award  with the formation of an advisory group and continued testing of its proposed EHR technology at a pilot site in West Virginia, according to multiple reports...

“For IBM this is a grand challenge that comes once in a decade, or once in a century,” Maner maintained. “One of the things that we wanted to do was to establish a path of work, really over the last year, so that if and when … we are awarded it, we are ready to go on day one.”

Accompanying these revelations about EHR testing activities was news that IBM and Epic had named 17 healthcare executives to an advisory group in their pursuit of the DHMSM contract. As Darius Tahir of Modern Healthcare reports, group members represent several nationally-recognized health systems as well as one industry group and a retired member of the Armed Forces...