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August-6-2010
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August 2010
US Airforce SNIM Contract Announcement
We are happy to announce a recent award on which Global CI is a named team mate on the SNIM vehicle. "This is another wonderful opportunity for Global CI to continue to grow our cyber-security group and contribute with our SMEs in Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Database Warehousing, Informatics, Infrastructure, Embedded Systems and Applications development." said Mike Ziman, Global CI's CEO.
Global CI as part of the team led by Battlelle has been chosen as one of a select number of teams given the chance to bid on computer software, network, information, modeling and simulation programs for the federal government under the SNIM contract.
Battelle’s selection by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) means we will be allowed to bid on up to $2 billion worth of task order contracts over the next five years covering cyber-security, networks, software design and other information-related programs in support of the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and other government agencies. Jeanette Miller, Global CI's lead Business Developer said "Our proprietary TOR (Task Order Review System), HCMT (Human Capital Management Tool) and Business Development style are made to order for this type of contract. We look forward to meeting the challenge everyday."
AFCEA Health IT Day
Right on the heels of HIMSS, Global CI is off to another Health IT event! Please join us at AFCEA Bethesda Chapter Health IT Day on April 6. More information can be found here -à http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=b1f75097-7adf-4da0-91b7-1f037ada28ab
March 2010
HIMSS 2010
Change is everywhere...Opportunity is here!
Transforming healthcare through IT.
Global CI is participating in the HIMSS conference again in 2010! We will be at booth 1162 to learn what is new and hot in Health ITand to continue to lead the way in developing the best applications of technology to solve the complexities of partnering government and industry for our clients and the benefit of all people.
Key Global CI consultants will also be speaking at the Interoperability Showcase representing SSA.
Please call us to arrange an on site visit at the conference...
Global CI...Your Partner for Building a Better Future!
For more info... http://www.himssconference.org
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NACCB Changes Name to TechServe Alliance to Better Reflect Expanded Mission-TechServe Alliance
Alexandria, VA - The National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses (NACCB), founded in 1987 for information technology (IT) services companies, announced today a new name, TechServe Alliance. The name and accompanying strategic shift is the culmination of a two-year review undertaken by the association's Board of Directors and extensive efforts by the staff. In conjunction with the new brand, TechServe Alliance launched its new Web site (www.techservealliance.org) today as well. Formed out of an initial gathering of 11 IT services firms in 1987, TechServe Alliance now offers an extensive portfolio of proprietary products and services that are built upon the collective knowledge, buying power and action of hundreds of companies and tens of thousands of affiliated professionals, enhancing efficiency and supporting member companies in their delivery of best-in-class IT services to clients nationwide. Today's brand shift reflects that the continued evolution of the group's mission is best achieved through collaborative efforts of IT services firms as well as their clients, consultants and suppliers with the overarching goal of advancing excellence and ethics within the IT services industry. From the premier industry conference, robust listservs, the industry's most comprehensive annual benchmarking report, cost conscious business insurance, ready access to industrydata, business trends and legal and legislative developments to an extensive online library of industry-specific model contracts and white papers, TechServe Alliance supports the efficient delivery of best-in-class IT services for clients and exceptional professional opportunities for consultants. TechServe Alliance also continues to serve as the voice of theindustry before the policymakers and the national and trade press.
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ONC ready to start on health IT priorities
-Government Health IT, a HIMSS Publication
Dr. David Blumenthal, the national health IT coordinator, said today
that he expects to start meeting shortly with members of health IT
advisory panels set up under the economic stimulus law and take first
steps on how to use some of the $2 billion health IT war chest it
funded.
The confirmation of Department of Health and Human Services
secretary Kathleen Sebelius last Tuesday means his office can now move
forward to execute the law, he said at an event sponsored by the Markle
Foundation's Connecting for Health collaborative.
"It means that we can begin to make decisions on how to get the mechanics of implementation rolling," Blumenthal said.
Early funding will be particularly important in efforts to open
extension centers for technical assistance to healthcare providers, in
training a health IT workforce and to spark health information
exchange, Blumenthal said.
Interoperability is especially essential to protecting the
public health, he said, citing the example of "the incipient potential
pandemic that we are facing."
"We will be, I hope, working quickly but wisely to develop those
policies," Blumenthal said. He said welcomed the contributions of
organizations, such as Connecting for Health, to assist the government
in setting direction on health IT, and, "telling us how to prevent the
problems we could create by regulating too much or by being too precise
or specific or by being too intrusive."
"At the same time it is clear that this field has not advanced enough when left exclusively to the private sector," he said.
Blumenthal said putting the health IT provisions of the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act into effect would improve healthcare
efficiency, quality and population health.
"We understand that health information technology is a vital
enabler to be part of a transformed 21st century healthcare system. If
we could do it just as well without health IT, we would do it without
health IT, but we can't," he said.
Under the law and beginning in 2011, increases in Medicare and
Medicaid payments to providers would be based on their "meaningful use"
of certified health IT.
Connecting for Health also announced its framework for
meaningful use, emphasizing that HHS should start with practical goals.
Meaningful use focus on medication management and coordination of care,
functions that are achievable even for smaller practices via
Internet-enabled technologies, it said.
The provision should prescribe standard information types that
are electronic, widely adopted and which can support measurement of
treatment outcomes.
The group also urged an approach that encourages innovation in
the use of applications and services, particularly for small physician
practices, according to Carol Diamond, Markle managing director and
chair of the Connecting for Health initiative.
"We must invest this money in ways that support information use
to improve quality, slow growth in costs and protect privacy, without
creating undue burden on clinicians and practices," she said.
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Health care reform tied to IT
-Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week
The Obama administration's drive to use $19 billion in economic
stimulus law funds to implement electronic health records is closely
linked to the administration's agenda for broad health care reform, a
top official said today.
Health information technology adoption and health care reform are
"joined at the hip," David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for
health information technology, told reporters during a conference call.
"I don't think we can achieve the president's vision of health care
reform without 21st century technology. Health IT is a means to an end." Obama has pledged to reform the health care system and expand access
to coverage. In his fiscal 2010 budget request to Congress in March,
Obama proposed $630 billion to start comprehensive health care reform. Blumenthal's office at the Health and Human Services Department
oversees $17 billion in incentive payments that will be distributed to
doctors and hospitals that buy and use health IT systems. He also has
$2 billion in money from the stimulus law that will be distributed in
part as technical assistance grants to get hospitals, doctors and
payers to exchange electronic patient data. Next week, two federal health IT advisory groups will meet for the
first time. The health IT policy panel will begin defining "meaningful
use" that will determine eligibility for the incentive payments. The
health IT standards committee will begin making recommendations for
technical standards for health IT systems to ensure they provide
appropriate data and can securely and reliably exchange information
with other systems. The advisory committees will assist in establishing rules for
privacy, security and maintaining innovation, Blumenthal said. For
example, the committees will provide advice on whether to maintain the
Certification Commission for Healthcare IT as the organization that
will certify whether vendors meet electronic health record standards to
be set under the stimulus law, he said.
Also, after hearing from those committees, HHS hopes to provide
direction on "meaningful use" by late spring or early summer,
Blumenthal said.
"Meaningful use is very much on our minds," Blumenthal said. "Those words at the key to success." With the public facing swine flu concerns in recent weeks,
Blumenthal also said there is "an enormous opportunity" to consider
public health needs for data as part of the health IT adoption.
Information systems that collect clinical data electronically can also
be used to track diseases and population health, he said. View Online |
IT Employment Declines in April
-Released by TechServe
Alexandria
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VA, May 22,
2009 - IT employment continued to decline in April
shedding 24,500 jobs or .63%, according to TechServe Alliance, formerly
NACCB, which tracks monthly IT employment.
After peaking
in November 2008 with over 4 million jobs and dropping the subsequent five
months, IT employment stood at 3,878,800 last month.
On a
year-over-year basis, IT employment declined 2.69% since April 2008.
"While IT employment continues
to be adversely impacted by the recession, the month-to-month declines have
moderated since the horrific December and January reports," observed Mark
Roberts, CEO of TechServe Alliance. "Given that IT employment will lag the
economy's emergence from the recession, it will likely be some time before
IT employment returns to its long-term pattern of growth," commented
Roberts. For complete IT Index please
visit:
http://www.techservealliance.org/research/it-employment-index.cfm
. The IT employment index is published by TechServe Alliance, the
national trade association representing IT staffing and solutions
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