“The Office of the CTO at the Department of Health and Human Services will be supporting a new “research project” focused on modernizing health IT systems at the Indian Health Service (IHS).”
“The office announced Wednesday that it had awarded a contract to the Bethesda, Maryland, consulting firm Emerging Sun LLC, which will lead research into the current state of health IT at IHS. The project, which kicked off in early October, will take place “in multiple stages” over the coming year. HHS did not share the cost associated with the contract…”
“HS currently uses the Resource and Patient Management System, or RPMS, to manage clinical, financial, and administrative information in the Indian health system,” Mitchell Thornbrugh, acting CIO at IHS, wrote in a blog post. And RPMS is, he continued, “somewhat dependent” on VistA…” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS CTO’s office to support Indian Health Service IT modernization study – By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier, October 26, 2018. FedScoop.
