🎧 Everyone Matters: Health Care in the US with Anne Altman and Dan Pelino
In this episode of Executive Perspective, JD Kathuria sits down with first-time author Dan Pelino and his wife, Anne Altman, to talk about the release of his book, Trusted Healers: Paul Grundy and the Global Healthcare Crusade. They discuss the importance of creating a culture of wellness in the United States and the impact that their social impact enterprise, Everything Matters, Inc., is having on the global conversation of access to care for all and emphasized awareness of integrated care models.
2018’s Top Executive Profiles Series
By clicking this link, you will find a roundup of our top executive profiles from 2018. They include leaders in the national security space, cybersecurity executives and artificial intelligence leaders. We’re also highlighting our first top health care executives in the federal sector, our inaugural
Meet Pinnacle Awards Finalist Kristine Martin Anderson
Booz Allen Hamilton Executive Vice President Kristine Martin Anderson is a Pinnacle Awards finalist in the Healthcare Executive of the Year category. Here, she shares what made her successful, how she helps shape next-gen GovCon leaders and the biggest career risk she’s taken and more. What key achievements did you have in 2017? Martin Anderson:
Top 10 Health Care Leaders To Watch: Karen Shields, Serco
Karen Shields knows all about dealing with large health systems. As the previous Senior Executive Service member at the Health and Human Services Department’s Centers for Medicare Service, she was responsible for all administration and operations for HealthCare.gov. In that role, she led multiple open enrollment periods under the Affordable Care Act. In her position
Top 10 Health Care Leaders To Watch: Rob Thomas, Leidos
When Rob C. Thomas II joined Leidos Health Group in October 2017, he saw the company’s ability to help health care organizations enhance their clinical care, public health and scientific research efforts, while creating efficiencies that reduce costs, as a perfect fit for him. “It is the ninth largest health IT company in the U.S. that
Top 10 Health Care Leaders To Watch: Erik Buice, Northrop Grumman
Even though Erik Buice has focused primarily on health and civilian customer bases over the past 20 years, he has also led the Cyber and IT Services business unit supporting Defense Department customers. His work at Northrop Grumman involves delivering health solutions to federal, state, commercial and international customers. His department focuses on areas such as
Top 10 Health Care Leaders To Watch: Antoine ‘Tony’ Azar, CACI
Tony Azar, senior vice president for healthcare solutions at CACI, has a long history of working within the civilian health care market. During his tenure at General Dynamics, he worked in this arena for customers, including the departments of Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services. In his current role, he has operational responsibility over the
Save the Date: CXO Tech Forum – Health IT, May 15
Join GovernmentCIO Media on May 15 for a breakfast event that brings together federal technology executives from civilian and defense health care agencies to discuss transformative tech in health. Starting with registration 8 a.m., the CXO Tech Forum: Health IT will be held at the Dockmaster Building on the Southwest Waterfront in D.C. The forum expects
Salient CRGT Offers New Health Care Analytics Solution
Salient CRGT has a new offering for federal government customers that uses advanced data analytics to spur health care modernization, reduce costs and deliver solutions to today’s crucial health issues. HealthAccel, Salient CRGT’s proprietary approach, was born of its February acquisition of Springfield, Virginia-based Information Innovators Inc., which focused on health IT. The influx of
Obamacare or Not, Analytics is the Future of Health Care Cost Reduction
Ian Graham is a vice president at Salient CRGT. With Congress deadlocked about the fate of the Affordable Care Act, one thing is still certain: The overall cost of health care in America is too high. According to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in 2015, U.S. health care spending grew 5.8 percent
Four Data Protection Tips for Patient Safety Week by Guest Author John Suit
From March 12-18, 2017, healthcare organizations across the country are celebrating Patient Safety Awareness Week. While the campaign’s traditional focus has always been reducing harm in on-site care, information security is also critical to patient safety. An organization’s inattention to cybersecurity can be dangerous to patients, affecting their safety, identity and financial welfare. Because exploitable
Leidos Secures $12M Contract to Support VA Department’s Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy
Leidos, a global science and technology solutions provider based in Reston, Va., is set to support the Department of Veteran’s Affairs under a $12 million prime agreement that contracts the company to provide systems integration support and services to the group’s Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP), the company announced earlier last month. The single-award firm-fixed-price
ManTech To Aid VA Department IT Integration Through 7Delta Acquisition
ManTech International Corporation on Tuesday of last week announced it closed its acquisition of 7Delta, Inc., a Columbia, Md.-based IT company that serves the healthcare community and Veterans Affairs Department (VA) with software development, program management, systems integration and information assurance among other tasks. The news just preceded Eric Shinseki’s Friday resignation from his role as VA secretary and
Intelligent Decisions Appoints Dexter Conrad as BD Manager for Training, Simulation Unit
Former Marine Corps Instructor Dexter Conrad will join Intelligent Decisions (ID) as business development manager of the company’s training and simulation unit based in Orlando, Fl., ID announced earlier last month. He will be tasked in his post with expanding the training and simulation programs currently used within the Defense Department and several civilian agencies,
Analyst One Event Focuses on Lessons Learned from Analysts Tackling Critical Problems Across All Sectors of Industry
Analyst One is a site that focuses on the analytical community. It serve analysts working hard problems with useful tips, lessons learned and use cases. It also provide assessments on the best sense-making methods and data analysis techniques to apply in the age of overwhelming data. “When we began planning our Analyst One site we
Harris Corp Awarded Final Phase of Contract Supporting Mobility Infrastructure of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Harris Corporation (HRS) has been awarded the final phase of a three-phase program that will enable the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct critical services wirelessly. “Harris will deliver both the right team and responsive program management expertise to successfully build and support 46 more medical sites as part of this large-scale mobility
Cigital, Inc. Secures $50 Million Investment from LLR Partners
Cigital, Inc., announced today the completion of a $50 million equity investment by LLR Partners. The new investment will support the software security services and solutions company in expanding its growth in existing markets, gaining traction in new verticals and geographical expansion. “Cigital’s rapid growth has outpaced that of the dynamic software security industry, where
DMI Acquires Mobile Enterprise Solutions Company, Golden Gekko
Digital Management, Inc. (DMI) announced today its acquisition of mobile application solutions provider Golden Gekko. The acquisition will add hundreds of interactive and mobile designers to DMI’s roster and lay the foundation for a series of mobile apps specifically tailored for the retail, financial services and healthcare industries. “The mobile devices sweeping the world today
Age of the Empowered Healthcare Consumer: Booz Allen Hamilton VP Chris Foster Talks Mobility
Once upon a time consumers of healthcare information did not have direct control over when or how they accessed content. They received and digested that which was force-fed to them. Then came the new media age. And then came mobility, and, shortly thereafter, the age of the empowered and entitled consumer. Or at least that’s
24-Year-Old Entrepreneur Discusses Backers, Networking, Future Challenges for Local Health Startup
A series of surgeries to treat a lacrosse athletic injury and frustration about a lack of online resources providing recovery information for that injury were the straws that led 24-year old Grant Verstandig to drop out of Brown University and pilot Audax Health. That was three years ago. The personal health management startup now has
Potomac Healthcare Solutions Co-Founder Tom Burden on SECAF Award Win and More
Tom Burden knows a thing or two about the Healthcare industry. Before becoming Principal and COO of Potomac Healthcare Solutions, a company he co-founded in 2011, Burden spent 23 years with Navy Medicine, eight years with PHP Healthcare Corporation and 10 years with health services firm CRAssociates. As a Navy Medical Service Corps Officer, Burden
SRA International Wins Multiple Contracts Worth $35 Million to Support Veterans Affairs Healthcare Programs
SRA International recently announced it was awarded multiple contracts worth a total value of $35 million, in support of strategic commitment to healthcare programs for the Veterans Affairs Department and the Defense Department’s Military Health System. “SRA is extremely proud of the confidence the Department of Veterans Affairs has placed in our ability to deliver
Salient Federal Solutions Wins $17M Contract to Support U.S OPM’s Benefits Systems Division
Salient Federal Solutions, Inc. (Salient) has won a $17 million Systems Support, Maintenance and Development (SSMD) contract for the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM)’s Benefits Systems Division. This one-year award, made under the OPM BPA, has three one–year option periods. “This work is significant to Salient where we have been supporting the Benefits Systems
Kris Collo’s 2013 Outlook: LPTA to be Critical, Expects Rise in Contract Protests
WashingtonExec 2013 Government Contracting Outlook Series: The new year brings big changes for the Federal IT industry, and WashingtonExec is back with its Government Contracting Industry Outlook Series. We are giving local executives the opportunity to share their thoughts on where they see our industry headed this year and beyond. Leaders were asked a series
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