The 2008 Federal Health IT Who’s Who was developed for Washington Technology by Suss Consulting Inc., of Jenkintown, Pa.
The companies listed have made deliberate corporate commitments to focus on building their already significant federal health information technology services business.
All the companies have designated health IT practices that are actively promoted as part of their overall federal IT business strategies.
Other large federal contractors perform substantial amounts of health IT work but have not yet developed significant health IT practices as part of their IT strategies or created separate practice areas around that specialty.
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORP.
Customers:
Programs:
Capabilities: Medical data-collection systems; managed health care information systems; clinical application development, integration and support; health record digitization; imaging libraries; medical supply chain solutions; database development, administration, conversion and integration; claims, payment and billing processing; and health portal development and management.
Recent Activity: The company is focusing on bringing increased functionality to its hosted managed health care information systems. The company’s health care information technology structure solutions group has a Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 3 rating. In the federal sector, the company continues to invest in its NHIN pilot program, which relies on the development of a thin-client solution.
EDS CORP.
Customers:
Programs:
Capabilities: Claims, payment and billing processing; anti-fraud services and applications; claims processing application development, integration and support; managed health care information systems; managed health care administrative and financial systems; and immunization registry services and applications. The company also provides clinical information and data management systems, service-oriented architecture solutions, legacy systems modernization, infrastructure modernization and operations. Other capabilities include CMMI Level 5 application development, integration and support; supply chain and medical logistics systems; health portal and benefits management systems; and contact center solutions.
Recent Activities: The company is actively pursuing opportunities to support state government health care business processes, with 2008 contract wins in Georgia and Indiana. According to the company’s data, EDS handles 35 percent of all Medicare and Medicaid claims in the United States and processes 2.4 billion health care transactions annually.
EDS's focus in the federal market is to help agencies modernize their clinical and health care administrative legacy systems, data and infrastructure. The goal is to help agencies with collaboration and health information exchange initiatives among governments and the private sector.
IBM CORP.
Customers:
Programs:
Capabilities: Managed health care information systems; hospital management systems; health portal development and management; health record digitization; clinical and diagnostic collaborative tools; archival and storage solutions; imaging libraries; service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions; high-performance computing solutions; grid computing solutions; data-center turnkey solutions; medical supply chain and procurement solutions; and consulting services.
Recent Activity: IBM is emerging as a champion of adopting SOA to integrate, exchange and share health care data, and its NHIN test bed is based on SOA. The company is also touting SOA as the enabling technology in developing the next generation of health analytics information systems.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP.
Customers:
Programs:
Capabilities: Clinical information and data management systems; health care management systems; archival/storage solutions; bioinformatics applications; disease surveillance applications; statistical applications; data-center turnkey solutions; health portal development and management; and information exchange solutions.
Recent Activity: Northrop Grumman Information Technology’s health IT strategy is focused on developing applications and systems that connect disparate health IT systems and exchange information across multiple domains.
PEROT SYSTEMS INC.
Customers:
Programs:
Capabilities: Managed health care financial systems; managed health care information systems; hospital management systems; clinical application development, integration and support; database management and support; business process solutions; and consulting services; medical and healthcare research management systems, scientific coding and reporting systems, business process solutions; consulting services; infrastructure services and support; and applications development and implementation.
Recent Activities: The company has had considerable success in implementing health IT solutions for the commercial sector and also is pursuing international health IT opportunities.
SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP.
Customers:
Programs:
Capabilities: Clinical application development, integration and support; health data management and security; disease surveillance applications; statistical applications; archival/storage solutions; software life cycle management; laboratory information management systems; and bioinformatics.
Recent Activities: SAIC is focused primarily on providing health IT solutions to the research and development community.
SRA INTERNATIONAL CORP.
Customers:
Programs:
Capabilities: Bioinformatics systems development; Web application solutions; enterprise data management; and applications development.
Recent Activities: The company provides information technology services that usually have a wider applicability, such as Web solutions, network management, call centers and help desks.
Knocking on the door: Best of the rest
A dozen companies are regarded as up-and-comers in the federal health information technology space. They are busy building market share through acquisitions, contract wins, and related commercial, state and local experience.
ABT Associates
Accenture Ltd.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc.
Apptis Inc.
Battelle Memorial Institute
Bearingpoint Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
CGI Group General
Dynamics Corp.
Harris Corp.
Maximus Inc.
Unisys Corp.
Source: Suss Consulting Inc.
