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Global Technology Resources, Inc. Selects Health Language to Support its Armed Forces Clinical Database Contract MORE

Medicomp Systems will again host Quipstar, World’s Favorite HIT Quiz Show, at HIMSS13, booth number 3068. The interactive health information technology quiz show was a crowd favorite in 2012 and is back again this year with the first show on Monday, March 4 at 4:00 pm. MORE

SHOUTAmerica, a non-profit organization focusing on the healthcare issues affecting young Americans, has unveiled a new calculator to help estimate costs of the looming health insurance rate hike that could soon hit many younger Americans. The SHOUTAmerica calculator is now available online at http://youngforaffordability.org/. MORE

The Alzheimer's Association is disappointed that the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) panel does not believe that there is adequate evidence whether or not PET imaging of brain beta amyloid changes health outcomes, and urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) to review the evidence and make a positive determination about coverage. The Association sincerely appreciates the opportunity to participate in this important review process. MORE

Salient Federal Solutions, Inc. (Salient), a provider of information technology, engineering, and intelligence analytic services to agencies in the intelligence, defense, homeland security, cyber security, and federal civilian markets, today announced the award of the Systems Support, Maintenance and Development (SSMD) contract for the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM)'s Benefits Systems Division. This one-year award, made under the OPM BPA, has three one–year option periods with an anticipated value of $17 million. MORE

The 2013 National Summit on Advanced Illness Care: A Roadmap for Transformation hosted by The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) begins today in Washington, D.C. The Summit—happening January 29-30— will tackle one of America's greatest challenges: breaking through the many cultural, health system and policy barriers to ensure that persons living with advanced illness receive the right care at the right time and place. This summit will provide a forum where innovators in policy and advocacy as well as nationally recognized health care providers, faith leaders, patients and family members from across the nation will discuss proven models of advanced illness care that put patients, their families, and their wishes first. MORE