The contract will modernize how the Pentagon provides care to some 9.5 million military members, families and retirees in part by installing new IT equipment and software to better share patient information with the Veterans Affairs Department and private providers, officials said.
While the military has used electronic health records for years, many troops who deployed to warzones such as Afghanistan and Iraq had trouble accessing their medical history from base to base and resorted to storing the information on portable computer disks such as thumb drives. In other cases, they carried around paper records in manila folders.
“That will be a thing of the past,” Jonathan Woodson, a doctor and assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, pledged during the conference call.
Yet getting the new system up and running across the Pentagon’s 55 military hospitals and 600 clinics will take years. The plan is to begin installing the technology at eight locations in the Pacific Northwest, then expand to the rest of the sites over six or seven years, Kendall said. The names of the initial locations weren’t immediately available.
Defense.gov Contracts for Wednesday, July 29, 2015
No: CR-143-15
July 29, 2015
July 29, 2015
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Leidos, Inc., Reston, Virginia was awarded a ceiling $4,336,822,777 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, with firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive fee, and fixed-price incentive pricing arrangements, for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization program. As a service provider integrator, the contractor will provide an electronic health record off-the-shelf solution, integration activities and deployment across the Military Health System.This contract has a two-year initial ordering period, with two 3-year option periods, and a potential two-year award term, which, if awarded, would bring the total ordering period to 10 years. Work will be performed at locations throughout the United States and overseas. If all options are exercised, work is expected to be completed by September 2025. Fiscal 2015 Defense Health Program Research, Development, Test and Evaluation funds in the amount of $35,000,000 will be obligated at the time of award. Additional funds will be obligated as individual delivery orders are issued. This was a competitive acquisition, with six offers received. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity (N00039-15-D-0044).
Leidos wins DoD healthcare systems modernization contract
A team led by Leidos Inc. has won the long-awaited $4.3 billion contract award on July 29 for the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) system. The team also includes electronic health record vendor Cerner Corporation and Accenture Federal.
The Defense Department issued a request for proposals for a new electronic health records system almost a year ago.
Other competitors that lost out to the Leidos team included parrtnerships led by IBM and Computer Sciences Corp.
The contract award had originally been promised months ago. Federal documents showed a $149 million budget for DHMSM for fiscal 2015, and a contract award was expected in early in the 2015 fiscal year. The program's price tag could reach $11 billion over the course of its life cycle through 2030, Chris Miller, program executive officer for the DHMSM and integrated electronic health records, said last year.
DoD awards Cerner, Leidos, Accenture EHR contract | Healthcare IT News
New estimated cost: $9B. 'Competition has worked for us.'
The US Department of Defense handed down the largest and most-anticipated electronic health record system contract in history late Wednesday.
And the winner is (drumroll, please) … Cerner, Leidos and Accenture. The contract's initial piece, valued at $4.3 billion, calls for the team to provide "an electronic health record off-the-shelf solution, integration activities and deployment across the Military Health System," a DoD spokesperson told Healthcare IT News.
DoD's choice, in the end, came down to three teams:
- Epic Systems and IBM;
- Cerner, Leidos and Accenture; and
- Allscripts aligned with Computer Sciences Corp. and Hewlett-Packard.
A coalition including Cerner has won the coveted Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract to replace the electronic health records system for the Military Health System. Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner joined with with federal contractors Leidos and Accenture Federal on the bid.
Cerner beat out competing bids from the teams of Epic Systems and IBM; and Allscripts, Computer Sciences Corp. and Hewlett-Packard. The award is valued at $4.3 billion, though Defense Department officials said that it could be worth more than $9 billion over the next 10 years — below earlier estimates of $11 billion.
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