The National Institutes of Health plans to spend $130 million on projects aimed at generating biomedical and behavioral data sets to facilitate artificial intelligence model training for research purposes. NIH said Tuesday
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CACI International has secured a task order worth $123.4 million from the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic for technical services supporting health processes for multiple service branches in the U.S. defense community.
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A subsidiary business of public sector technology company Peraton has been awarded a potential 10-year, $2 billion contract to expedite and strengthen the Defense Health Agency’s military health database. As a result of
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Xavier Becerra, secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, has officially organized the Advanced Research Project Agency for Health to drive innovations in the biomedical discipline. Becerra appointed Adam Russell, a
More The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking public feedback on certain provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act. HHS is soliciting comments on recognized security
More The Department of Defense’s office of inspector general conducted a joint audit of the efforts of DOD and the Department of Veterans Affairs to achieve interoperability with regard to their electronic health
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Micky Tripathi, head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, expects a new interoperability framework to help federal agencies accumulate and share data across multiple networks, Federal News
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to establish a central repository for demographic data in support of health equity efforts, FedScoop reported Thursday. CMS intends for this repository to serve
More The Government Accountability Office has found problems with the quality of electronic health data migrated to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ new records system that could pose risks to patient safety and
More A bipartisan group of 45 Senate and House members has urged congressional leaders to extend telehealth authorities as the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic remains indefinite. In a joint letter published Friday,
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