Planned Systems International Inc. has won a $4 million contract to provide certification and accreditation services for the Defense Department’s health care system.
Under the contract, PSI will perform a number of information assurance tasks for the Military Health System’s Tricare Management Activity.
The tasks include security analysis, computer lab support, trend analysis of information assurance data, computer network defense and security management.
The company will also develop standard operating procedures for certification and accreditation, which will help ensure that government systems have an established set of security controls and policies in place.
PSI of Columbia, Md., specializes in information technology solutions and services for health care IT, enterprise infrastructure support, information assurance, enterprisewide solutions and authentication.
From the battlefield to the home front: Managing medical data
Government Health IT presents Col. Claude Hines Jr., program manager for the Defense Health Information Management System, in this recent InSight eSeminar. Col. Hines discusses the health information technology and tactical challenges faced by the military medical community in Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas of conflict. In doing so, he describes the current information technology solutions for transferring clinical data between battlefield care givers to health care personnel at military treatment facilities worldwide.
