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PwC Announces Google, Inc. is on the PwC Team Bidding for the Department of Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization Program
PwC US today announced Google Inc. is a part of the PwC team in the bid for the Department of Defense (DoD) Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) Electronic Health Record (EHR) contract. The DHMSM program will replace and modernize the Military Health System (MHS), which currently supports more than 9.7 million beneficiaries, including active duty, retirees and their dependents.
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PwC Completes Acquisition of Ray Group International
PwC US today announced that it has acquired Ray Group International, LLC (RGI), a consulting firm specializing in information technology (IT) and program management consulting services for federal government entities.
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Q and A: What Feds Can Learn From Cities' Open Data Experiences
Cities hold the largest share of government data in the U.S., covering everything from liquor licenses to teacher performance reviews, but only a handful of cities have released that data to outside researchers and app developers. Read More »
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Q&A With Todd Park, U.S. CTO
Federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park has a vision for changing the way American citizens interact with technology. We had an opportunity to discuss those initiatives with Park, who was appointed Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 2009. Read More »
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Q&A: 3 Pillars Of Population Health
The overarching concept of population health management continues taking shape amid an American healthcare system undergoing feverish digitization — and while some of the larger, IT-savvy health networks may more effectively be managing patient populations within two years, for most it will likely take six to eight years. Read More »
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Q&A: Adrian Gardner, CIO, NASA Goddard Flight Center
In recent times, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been actively pursuing new, more powerful and cost-effective ways to deliver its vast amounts of data across its networks of scientists and engineers, as well as share its discoveries with the rest of the world. That’s why the space agency has been aggressively adopting the cloud model... Read More »
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Q&A: An ONC HIT Workforce Development Program Success Story
Robert Reedy was bored by his IT job. After 17 years encompassing various straight IT roles, spanning break-fix to networking, he needed a change. Reedy considered going back to school for nursing, until he found about ONC’s HIT Workforce Development Program, that is. Read More »
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Q&A: Bettina Experton Talks About The iBlueButton App
Humetrix has given the iBlueButton a technical design boost as a multi- and cross-platform health information hub that patients and providers can use to share health data at the point of care with the most popular mobile tools. Read More »
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Q&A: Harris CEO Jim Traficant on the 'genius' vision of open source in VA and DoD iEHR
By fostering an open source ecosystem around their joint iEHR, the DoD and VA are not only tapping into less expensive software and development, but also training industry on how to work with them, sparking innovation and, ultimately, reaping the rewards of those IT advancements.
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Q&A: Montana's CIO On Enterprise IT For A Smooth MMIS Rollout
Many state agencies have been modernizing their IT systems in the past decade, or are in the process of doing so — especially in health and human services. Read More »
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Q&A: Mostashari On Sequester, RECs, CommonWell
Interoperability and exchange are perhaps the most frequently spoken words at this year’s HIMSS13 conference. Yet they are only two among the many issues facing national coordinator Farzad Mostashari, MD, this week. Read More »
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Q&A: Moving From A PCMH To A 'Medical Neighborhood' Via Direct
Sharing medical records between different vendors' EHRs is one of the meaningful use Stage 2 measures that some folks would like to see yanked – but not MedAllies' Holly Miller, MD, or John Blair, MD. Read More »
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Q&A: SCOTUS Ruling Could Spark ACO Uptake
While not often in the mainstream media coverage, among the Affordable Care Act provisions that promise to bring substantive improvements in care quality is the accountable care organization. Read More »
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Q&A: The Non-Existent Public Option As ACA's Achilles' Heel
The words “single payer” are among the dirtiest in healthcare’s lexicon — but mostly here in America. Some of the other countries operating either single payer or so-called dual systems that essentially pit a public option against private care have seen certain measures of success. And that is among the reason that some other countries, such as Singapore, have superior healthcare. Read More »
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Q&A: Unstructured Clinical Notes Just As Valuable For Analytics
While much has been made of the need to standardize clinical data with EHRs that use templates, click boxes, and dropdowns to funnel information into pre-determined data elements, the need for such strict organization may not be top priority for long. [...] Read More »
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