CMS contracts with eight vendors over 10 years to better integrate its IT business systems and health information with demands of health reform, EHR meaningful use and increasing Medicare beneficiaries.
Interoperability can be fragile even when developers write good code, so testing early by vendors and other organizations is critical for meaningful use and health information exchange.
CMS wants to develop health insurance exchange verification data and services to support eligibility for employer-sponsored and qualified health plans.
The contract for the San Francisco-based firm is worth up to $5 million for modeling and simulation software to analyze diseases, treatments and delivery settings.
Despite a seemingly inauspicious beginning, the Department of Veterans affairs anticipates robust security for a new program that seeks to improve care delivery by allowing mobile devices to be used on the job.
CMS will use the vendor's cloud computing platform for its Healthcare.gov's insurance plan finder and for IT system service of state health insurance exchanges.
CDC is developing guides for system vendors to establish a clinical document standard for reporting hospital-acquired infections to agency safety network.
ONC will hire a vendor to identify ways to educate patients about how they can exercise consent with their providers about electronic exchange of their information.
NIH's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering anticipates exchange of medical images between providers and consumers to play role in meaningful use of EHRs.