The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will fund states a total of $150 million in 2007 and 2008 to design ways, including IT, to transform their Medicaid systems to increase quality and efficiency of care.
The number of physicians moving to electronic health records jumped by more than one-third since 2001, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
An online early warning system the Agriculture Department put in place to help growers fight an infection targeting U.S. soybean crops has, by some estimates, saved farmers hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Agriculture Department is seeking information about applications that can automate farm program business delivery, including eligibility for benefit payments.
This is the second task order issued to EDS under the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' $1.9 billion Enterprise Data Center contract, the hub of the CMS IT infrastructure modernization for the next decade.
<font color="CC0000">(Updated) </font>The Veterans Affairs Department said today that law enforcement officials had recovered the stolen laptop containing the personal data of more than 26 million veterans, and that initially it looks as though the data has not been accessed.
<font color="CC0000">(Updated)</font color> RTI International has subcontracted with 22 states and territories to evaluate existing privacy laws and their effect on data exchange as part of federal health IT efforts.
The Homeland Security Department will award a contract to develop the National Biosurveillance Integration System to provide an early warning system for an outbreak or possible bioterrorism attack.
Raytheon Co. has won a contract worth up to $368 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for high-performance computing resources to support advances in NOAA's environmental modeling capabilities.
Harris Corp. won a five-year, $600 million contract from the Census Bureau to build an automated system capable of collecting census data in the field. Under the contract, Harris will serve as the systems integrator and oversee a large team of contractors.
EDS Corp., IBM Corp. and Companion Data Services LLC will compete for task orders for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services new enterprise data centers.
The feasibility test is a first step toward letting Medicare beneficiaries engage directly in their medical care through easy access to their medical information, according to the agency.
Extracting and sharing data through modernization and infrastructure consolidation, and making better use of data collected through business processes, are priorities for the Homeland Security and Defense departments.
Probaris software will help Social Security to comply with new identity vetting requirements before issuing new ID credentials to federal employees and contractors.
The privacy element of the Health and Human Services Department's health IT efforts will launch in late April with the award of contracts to study the variations in state privacy and security policies and regulations.
The Health and Human Services Department will release an RFP in a few weeks for an assessment of state regional health information organizations to include in the national health IT effort.
Four companies have won contracts totaling $430.3 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to process Medicare claims from suppliers of durable medical equipment.
G&B Solutions Inc. has won a $15 million contract from the Treasury Department to furnish independent verification and validation support services to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
