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Building on a Care and Benefits Integrated Systems (CBIS) ECM Support contract they added last Fall, this 8(a) small business information technology solutions provider, and longtime partner to the Defense Health Agency, was recently awarded a 15-month $10M contract to provide a range of EIM Support services.The post 8(a) Small Business wins DHA Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Support contract appeared first on G2Xchange Health.

G2X TAKE: Looking to leverage Kevin Larsen’s serving as the Health IT SME and Advisor leading the HHS Indian Health Service Health IT modernization project, and prior experience leading the enterprise implementation of lean process and quality improvement across CMS, Optum has added a new Senior VP. In his new role Kevin will serve as a Clinical executive to lead the OptumLabs research agenda and the Optum Enterprise Strategy condition-centric management innovation program. Prior roles include: Senior Health IT Adviser - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Enterprise Lean Lead and Health IT Advisor - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medical Director of Meaningful Use - Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT Take Bytes The Optum team has made several big hires over the past couple of years, to include adding Patty Horoho as the CEO of Optum’s federal health service business, experienced growth leader, Dev Nathan as a VP for Federal Healthcare Strategy & Growth, Karoom Brown as new CEO for Federal Health IT Subsidiary, and they recently added former Chief Medical Officer, Deputy Administrator, and Director Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, Patrick Conway as a Senior Executive in Residence. Optum has a current job opening for a Vice President of Business Development for DHA, VA. Optum is part of the UnitedHealth Group family of companies, bringing with that a set of past performance and expertise in the delivery of enterprise clinical and IT solutions across the Federal and commercial sector that few can match. Optum was named one of the NXT UP firms poised to make big waves in the Federal sector in 2020 and for years to come. TAGS: optum, hhs, cmsThe post Recent HHS and CMS Health IT Advisor joins Optum to drive Clinical Innovation and Translation appeared first on G2Xchange Health.

The weekend has been busy for many prospective T4NG Primes, as bidders scrambled to find out who else was notified that they are are moving on to Phase II. Included here is a list of firms understood to have been included in the competitive range.The post Update: First round of cuts for On-Ramp to $22.3B VA T4NG IDIQ appeared first on G2Xchange Health.

This longtime Military Health Systems IT leader and experienced Chief Information Officer in the Healthcare industry, skilled in Operational Planning, Organizational Leadership, and Team Building, takes on a new role as the MTIO Chief. The post DHA taps Digital & Enterprise Transformation leader to drive Market Technology Integration Office appeared first on G2Xchange Health.

G2X’s Director of Research, Andréa Leichtman, reviewed the CMS Opportunity forecast update for this month, released last week. The document highlights a slew of new additions and subtractions from the forecast.The post Update: June CMS Opportunity Forecast out appeared first on G2Xchange Health.

This very fast growing scientific information technology and research company and longtime partner to the National Institutes of Health, that focuses on providing a diverse set of complex biomedical, scientific, and technology services, recently beat out one other bidder to be awarded a new 5-year task to support the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The post NIH NHLBI awards $17M Enterprise Business Intelligence task appeared first on G2Xchange Health.

That didn't take long! A few short months after acquiring the Health IT Division of a VA T4NG Prime, this SDVOSB Healthcare services and IT consultancy adds their first T4NG task win, beating out three others to be awarded a 3-year task to provide Veterans Benefits Management System SQA support services.The post New T4NG Prime Sierra7 picks up VBMS Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Support win appeared first on G2Xchange Health.

Beating out two other bidders, this Veteran-owned small business IT modernization and integration company, with capabilities that include Systems integration and IT engineering, specifically around data center optimization, cloud migration and consolidation, modernization, application performance analysis and improvement, and end-user experience improvement, has been awarded a 4-year contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.The post CMS awards $38M Content Delivery Network (CDN) Support and Services contract appeared first on G2Xchange Health.

Building on their prior experience gained providing Program Management support services to the VHA Medical Supplies Program Office, this global consulting and advisory services firm just beat out three other bidders to secure this new 5-year contract to provide a range of assistance and support services.The post VA awards $16M MSPO Assistance and Support Services contract to Deloitte appeared first on G2Xchange Health.

A protest related to this RPP seeking support for the Department of the Army’s telemedicine and advance technology research center (TATRC), specifically solutions to provide the rapid development, deployment and testing of a national emergency “telecritical” care network to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been dismissed as the office does not review protests related to other transaction agreements (OTA) authority.The post OTA Protest: Department of the Army telemedicine and advance technology research center (TATRC) support appeared first on G2Xchange Health.