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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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Re-inventing Healthcare
Building a connected, scalable, patient-centric health IT system.
-Health Management Technology
Software and the Internet will transform healthcare
as they have so many other industries, opening new ways of working, new ways of
communicating and new economics. The future will bring a dynamic, patient-centric
health system that re-invents how physicians provide care and individuals
manage their health - a totally connected and security-enhanced network
enabling the seamless exchange and reuse of health data.
In this new world, we'll see patients as consumers
- experiencing more control, more convenience, better service and better value
for what they spend. We'll see physicians as knowledge workers - professionals
getting the right data in the right format at the right time with
computer-assisted decision support to provide the best treatment and preventive
care. We'll see new interactions among the members of the system - physicians,
patients, pharmacies, researchers and insurance providers benefiting from a new
flow of data to make better, faster decisions. We'll see the extension of
healthcare to the virtual space - patients getting care when they want it,
wherever they need it, thanks to virtual doctor visits, medical homes and
personalized medicine based upon genomic data. We'll see a learning healthcare
system - one that measures everything, identifies errors and makes improvements
in order to deliver value, as indicated in the Institute of Medicine Roundtable
on Evidence-Based Medicine 2008 report, "Learning Healthcare Systems
Concepts." Everyone in the ecosystem will be more securely connected.
Health data will be the asset that drives efficient, high-quality, value-based,
evidence-focused medicine.
So, what is our blueprint to realize this vision?
When America wanted to go to the moon, NASA didn't focus on building a rocket.
It set the goal of "landing on the moon" and used money, technology
and innovation to achieve it. As we look across the healthcare industry today,
we can see examples of successful organizations employing the same kind of approach
- considering outcomes, applying the right technologies and innovating. We
should expand on these successes and embrace their core ideals by doing the
following:
See the 8 Core Ideals
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CI staff attends the 2009 HIMSS Conference in Chicago.
-Global CI
The three inches of snow received on that
Sunday night was the only thing that was cold in Chicago as far as Health IT is
concerned. Approximately 27,000 attendees and exhibitors were present at
the HIMSS conference. Global CI had four staff personnel at the
conference. Marty Prahl attended as a representative for the Social Security
Administration (SSA) Interoperability Showcase, Tom Davidson attended to
increase his already impressive Health IT knowledge base in support of SSA,
Jeanette Miller attended as an exhibitor, in support of our partner, Lockheed
Martin for our work on contracts with the Center of Medicare Services (CMS) and
the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and Mike Ziman attended in
support of Global CI's expanding business development surrounding Health IT.
Global CI is a knowledgeable participant in the
application of the NHIN Gateway (National Health Information Network).
This includes using open source software and teaming with other users building
pilot applications that deliver critical and pertinent data and government
services at significantly improved time lines and significantly reduced
government costs. Global CI staff has worked tirelessly with SSA, other
federal and state agencies and private industry (hospitals, providers, payers,
etc.) to adapt this technology.
Global CI recognizes that better living and
prosperity reside in the best applications of technology to solve the
complexities of partnering government and industry. Global CI is
recognized for its subject matter expertise in developing and adapting
technologies for our clients for the betterment of people.
Stay tuned for updates.
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The high-stakes game of information exchange
Warren Suss, GCN
The stimulus package and the 2010 budget proposal from President Barack Obama underscore the central role of improved information exchange in achieving top-priority national objectives. Consider federal health information technology. The dollar stakes are sky-high. The stimulus package allocates $19 billion toward achieving improved exchange of medical information. The Obama budget sets aside $630 billion for a health care overhaul, which will require improved information exchange to achieve its objectives. The stakes are also high in terms of the number of entities involved. The Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program will coordinate the efforts of 26 agencies across the government to advance the exchange of health information within the federal arena and among federal, state, local and commercial institutions. Likewise, the major technical, management and cultural challenges associated with health IT information exchange, beginning with health record interoperability, privacy, portability and security. There are specialized human factors associated with the impact of electronic and personal health records on physician, nursing and administrative workflows. Even fundamental issues such as patient identification numbering systems, biomedical terminology, measurements of behavioral health data, and the creation of longitudinal records across institutional boundaries are works in progress. Despite the challenges, there's no question that we will achieve results. The FHA has already developed a gateway for establishing the secure exchange of medical records, and the Social Security Administration has implemented it with a successful pilot program. The question facing federal IT managers and executives at the front lines of federal information exchange initiatives is whether we will achieve high-stakes results that match the magnitude of the challenges. The SSA pilot program is encouraging |
IT Employment Declines Again in March
-Released by NACCB
Alexandria, VA, April 8, 2009 - After dropping in December (56,000 jobs or 1.4%), January (48,000 jobs or 1.2%), February (14,000 jobs or .35%), IT employment continued its descent in March shedding 31,300 jobs or .79%, according to the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses (NACCB), which tracks monthly IT employment.
After peaking in November with over 4 million jobs, IT employment has shed approximately 150,000 jobs or 3.7%. Despite this drop, it was not until this past month that IT employment entered negative territory in a  meaningful way on year-over-year basis declining 1.79% since March 2008. While small consolation for those adversely affected, IT employment continued to outperform the general workforce which has shed almost 4.8 million jobs (-3.48%) within the last twelve months.
"Given that employment has historically been a lagging indicator of an economic rebound, the continued decline in national IT employment is not surprising," observed Mark Roberts, CEO of NACCB. "While unemployment rates in many IT skill sets remain well below the national unemployment rate of 8.5%, there is very little to cheer about in March's numbers," commented Roberts
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