Harris awarded contract
13 April 2010
‘This brings us closer to improving care for our wounded warriors, veterans and their families’.
Communications and information technology company, Harris, has been awarded a 10-month, follow-on contract by Evolvent Technologies for ongoing enhancements to a military health network that exchanges patient records and images with Veterans Administration (VA) facilities and other medical centres. Evolvent is the prime contractor for the US Department of Defense (DoD) Healthcare Artifact and Image Management Solution (HAIMS).
This solution will ultimately provide all hospitals, medical centres, and dental and medical clinics within the Military Health System (MHS) enterprise with wide access to, and viewing of, healthcare artefacts and images. An artefact is any file that adds value to a patient's electronic health record, and can include any type of captured image other than diagnostic medical imagery, such as electronic scans of paper medical records, photographs and handwritten notes. HAIMS also has the flexibility to handle documents, video and audio files.
Harris is providing support in the areas of system development and software design for the Web-based HAIMS solution. The team recently completed similar tasks under the first phase of the HAIMS contract, which will be deployed at nine DoD user sites and a data centre.
"Successful completion of HAIMS Phase I is a significant milestone in implementing the new MHS enterprise," said Jim Traficant, Vice President of Harris Healthcare Solutions. "This brings MHS closer to a next-generation solution that will help save lives and improve care for our wounded warriors, veterans and their families."
Under Phase II, Harris will continue to support the enhancement of the functionality of the system. New features will include capabilities for performing bulk scanning of healthcare artefacts, allowing HAIMS to ingest artefacts and images provided by external healthcare systems, as well as allowing HAIMS to interact within the DoD's electronic health records system. Phase II includes deployment of the system to an additional 16 sites.
Over previous years, MHS has managed more than 750,000 in-theatre medical encounters. The lack of ready access to wounded-warrior artefact and image information over the course of treatment and recovery has posed a challenge to MHS providers. The HAIMS solution will enable the DoD and the VA to expand their interoperability by sharing health information from the military theatre all the way back to the clinic.
The HAIMS programme was awarded to Evolvent Technologies as part of the Defense Medical Information Systems/Systems Integration, Design, Development, Operations and Maintenance Services 3 contract.
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