The Defense Innovation Unit launched a new pilot project that will use AI combined with augmented reality microscopes to help medical professionals better identify cancer cells. Google Cloud was tasked with designing the solution.
The contract covers manufacture and supply of the two-antibody drug cocktail REGN-COV2. The company had announced Monday that it entered the drug into three late-stage clinical studies, both as a treatment for existing SARS-CoV-2 infections and a preventive treatment for healthy exposed people.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense rolled out a joint health information exchange that would make it easier to share records with community providers.
Through Carnegie Mellon's $3.5 million contract and Pitt's $3.71 million contract, the organizations will work to develop a trauma care system that can treat and stabilize soldiers injured in remote locations.
Assessing mild traumatic brain injury with a blood test could be tremendously useful for the military. More than 360,000 service members have suffered a TBI since 2000, and diagnosing them has often been inexact
More importantly to Cerner, the company is learning from its early work with the DoD, experience that can carry over to commercial customers and position Cerner to land additional federal contracts, including, perhaps, a forthcoming EHR overhaul at the VA.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The first rollout was to begin in December at a Seattle-area naval hospital, but that will be pushed back to 2017.
It will look at ways to integrate circuits, LEDs, solar cells to create smart fabrics to see, hear, communicate, store energy, regulate temperature, and monitor health
DoD officials this month denied appeals by groups led by IBM, Computer Sciences Corp., Amazon and General Dynamics, against a $50.7 million no-bid hosting contract to primary DHMSM contractor Leidos and partner Cerner, originally awarded in December.
in Cerner's 2Q earnings call, President Zane Burke offered some interesting statistics about the scope of the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization effort, known as DHMSM ("dim sum") in bureaucrat-speak.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Wednesday's news that the team of Cerner, Leidos and Accenture Federal had won the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract to replace the Department of Defense's electronic health records system came as a bit of a surprise, as many had assumed Epic Systems and IBM were shoo-ins.
Cerner beat out competing bids from the teams of Epic Systems and IBM; and Allscripts, Computer Sciences Corp. and Hewlett-Packard.
It's not the coveted $11 billion DoD Healthcare Management System Modernization contract, but Cerner has won a Department of Defense solicitation to replace the Military Health System's anatomic pathology laboratory information system.
While a Senate panel was receiving advice Wednesday on how to improve health information exchange in the private sector, two House subcommittees were told of serious problems that still plague government IT projects, including VA-DoD interoperability efforts.
The Department of Defense awarded Medtronic (MDT) $58,026,785 for radiology systems and components for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and federal civilian agencies. This a first year deal with the option to extend the contract for up to six more years. This first one-year contract should be fulfilled by Oct. 25, 2014. For more, click […]