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The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology's ViPS, a contract to support the Department of Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP). The total contract is worth $80.3 million over four years if all options are exercised.
Employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs continued to lose mobile devices in July, but the number of overall security breaches the department experienced declined slightly from the previous month, according to VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker.
Forty health systems have joined the Premier healthcare alliance Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Readiness Collaborative to improve community health using healthcare IT infrastructure, according to Premier president and CEO Susan DeVore.
As hospitals across the country strive to roll out electronic medical records and cope with an estimated shortage of more than 50,000 information technology professionals, Duke University is expanding its informatics programs.
GE Healthcare announced that its Centricity Practice Solution version 9.5 has been inspected by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and is a premarket conditionally CCHIT Certified 2011 Ambulatory EHR, with additional certification for child health and cardiovascular medicine with advanced reporting.
A new study from KLAS shows that, while there's no enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor that overwhelmingly satisfies clients, the limited options in that market mean that migrating to a new one may not be worth the cost.
Stockholders of healthcare IT developers Allscripts and Eclipsys approved the merger of the two companies at a special meeting held Aug. 13.
Latest report to Congress on security breaches shows steady trickle of smart phone losses; but overall incidents dipped since June.
The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge, an initiative seeking to stimulate innovative application development and data use for healthcare, announced four new challenges that could net winners more than $15,000.
The National Institutes of Health has launched a nationwide IT-supported research initiative using human studies to define changes in the human immune system in response to infection or to vaccination.