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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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Focusing on the industry's most valuable assets
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American Red Cross- Press Release 01/14/09
With estimates that as many as three million people may be affected
by the catastrophic earthquake which hit Haiti Tuesday, the American
Red Cross is releasing an additional $9 million for earthquake relief,
bringing its total commitment so far to $10 million to support relief
efforts in Haiti.
Priority needs in Haiti are food, water, temporary shelter, medical
services and emotional support. Thousands of local Red Cross
volunteers are aiding their fellow Haitians. American Red Cross
Disaster management specialists are scheduled to arrive today from the
United States, Peru and Mexico to join local Red Cross staff already on
the ground in the disaster zone. As soon as airports begin accepting
relief shipments, tarps, hygiene items and cooking sets for
approximately 5,000 families will come from the Red Cross warehouse in
Panama.
The American Red Cross is also helping the injured who may need
blood. Blood and blood products were shipped to the U.S. Naval Air
Station in Jacksonville, Florida, and then on to Guantanamo Bay to help
Haitian evacuees and patients.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has a plane full
of mostly medical items on the way to Haiti from Geneva. ICRC staff,
including engineers, a surgeon and family linking specialists are
expected to arrive in Port-au-Prince this morning. Other Red Cross
partners have deployed a mobile hospital, medical teams, and 40 staff
to help with sheltering, providing water, sanitation, and
telecommunications.
ICRC is helping reconnect separated families in Haiti through a special web site
which enables people in Haiti and outside the country to search for and
register the names of relatives missing since the earthquake. In the
first twenty-four hours, more than 6,000 people have been registered.
Countless requests have come from people wanting to help. The best
way to do that is to make a donation to the American Red Cross
International Response Fund at redcross.org or by calling
1-800-RED-CROSS. Donors can designate their gifts to Haiti relief.
Donations to the International Response Fund allows the American Red
Cross to respond to global emergencies and disasters.
In addition, several hundred thousand people have chosen to make a
mobile donation. Donors can text "Haiti" to 90999 on their cell phone
to send a $10 donation to support Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti.
The mobile giving effort raised more than $3 million by Thursday
morning, and all money raised goes to support Red Cross relief efforts
in Haiti.
To Donate
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Statement to the Nationwide Health Information Network Working Group
Directory Services at the Social Security Administration
James Borland, Special Advisor for Health IT
December 16, 2009
Good morning. I'm Jim Borland, Special Advisor for Health IT at the Social Security Administration (SSA). I'm pleased to be here today to provide testimony on SSA's current practice of using agency-created federal and state vendor files to identify and request evidence from medical sources, as well as its future vision and support for the creation of a single, authoritative directory of providers of medical records.
SSA is the nation's single largest provider of long-term disability benefits. Currently, SSA's two federal disability programs provide roughly $15 billion in monthly cash benefits, which are based on the presence of a disability, to almost 15 million OASDI and SSI beneficiaries. A roughly comparable amount of Medicare and Medicaid benefits is also paid out to health care providers on behalf of those beneficiaries.
To determine the eligibility of the nearly 3 million people who apply for these benefits each year, SSA must obtain and review their relevant medical records. In connection with that review, SSA makes more than 15 million patient-authorized requests to the nation's 500,000 doctors, clinics, hospitals, and other treating sources.
We also are proud to say that with our partner, MedVirginia, we are among the first to use the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) to securely request and receive medical records. The availability of the NHIN means that our medical records requests, which typically require weeks or even months to fulfill, are responded to by participating clinicians of the MedVirginia network in seconds. The results of this use of health IT are incontrovertible-where health IT-gathered medical records are present, average case processing time is cut almost in half.
This use of health IT to gather medical records is groundbreaking. But it is not without its challenges. Today, we use a home-grown national provider directory that we call the Source Reference File. It is a conglomeration of 54 State Vendor Files. It is used for purposes as diverse as records requests and records payments. It is updated at the state and federal levels. Because of this, it contains duplicates, aliases, misspellings, incomplete and out-of-date information. For example, in the case of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), where we have 4 facilities that use health IT to share records with us, the Source Reference File contains over 1200 entries. While we have cross referred these entries to the electronic health record end point for BIDMC, it is a manual process that must be constantly monitored.
As we move forward to expand the use of health IT to gather medical records, we recognize that the current model is unsustainable. So, over a year ago, we began work on a national provider directory to support both our health IT efforts and our planned consolidation of 54 State Disability Determination Services systems into a single, national system that we call the Disability Case Processing System. Among the foundational requirements for the national provider directory are standard identification information for all of the nation's clinical professionals and medical records location, fax number, e-mail address, electronic health record end point and preferred response method (mail, fax, Electronic Records Express or HIT) for each.
So, you can see from those requirements that our needs are far from unique. SSA and other NHIN participants have a common need for an authoritative directory of medical providers to facilitate interoperability and support electronic communication and data exchange.
The objective is to be able to easily identify providers and determine whether they are participants on the NHIN. For NHIN participants, the directory should identify clinical relationships and affiliations and provide addressable electronic endpoints for the request of medical evidence. For non-participants, we will know to trigger a request for medical records in a manner other than through our health IT system, by mail or fax, for example.
The value proposition of a unified registry is not unique to SSA. With the increased focus on health IT and adoption of electronic health records, there becomes the clear need for an authoritative means of identifying healthcare providers and understanding their relationships. To that end, SSA recently submitted a proposal to the Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) committee in order to raise interest among the IHE members and in an attempt to gain partnerships in pursuance of a provider registry. The cornerstone of that proposal was a common look-up interface, a "411" for health care providers.
We look forward to working collaboratively with this working group and other stakeholders to help define the requirements for a provider registry. We also understand that we are in a unique position to help frame these requirements. As the first federal agency to participate in the live exchange of medical information through the NHIN, and with our planned expansion efforts in 2010, we might serve as a test-bed for electronic exchange facilitated by an authoritative provider registry. We are currently in discussion with the Office of the National Coordinator to determine if and how we might best assist in this regard.
Thank you again for the opportunity to testify on this vital issue. I have invited two of Social Security's technical experts on provider directories-Marty Prahl [Marty has worked with Global Commerce & Information as a Health Architect as a long time consultant] and Shanks Kande--to join me today. We would be happy to answer your questions.
Read the complete press release
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Global
Commerce & Information Embraces New Traditions in Healthcare Delivery at
HIMSS10 in Atlanta
Baltimore, MD - Focused on improving the
delivery of healthcare with effective and efficient healthcare IT and
management systems solutions, Global
Commerce & Information travels to Atlanta, Ga., for the upcoming
2010 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition, Mar. 1-4, 2010, at the Georgia
World Congress Center. Recognized as one of the premier conferences in the
healthcare industry, HIMSS10 brings together healthcare professionals across
the globe for this annual gathering.
Global Commerce & Information will be demonstrating at booth #_1162_ on the HIMSS exhibit floor and we invite you
to visit us there.
With
the transition from paper to digital records continuing to gain national
attention and increased acceptance in healthcare, Global Commerce & Information will share its newest technology
solution at the conference. Mike Ziman,
chief executive officer for Global Commerce & Information explained
the benefits of this product.
"At
the annual HIMSS conference, we have an opportunity to meet with people who are
looking for the right technology solution for their specific situation. Global Commerce & Information can
talk with each individual one-on-one about their own needs and advise them on
the products available. The HIMSS exhibition makes it easy
for us to meet with customers interested in ourproducts
and who are looking for the right option for their electronic health record
system."
In Atlanta, the HIMSS annual
conference is expected to attract about 29,000 attendees, ranking it as one of
the largest healthcare IT and management systems conference in the world.
Attendees who visit the conference participate in education sessions and networking
events, in addition to visiting the exhibits. The 2010 conference includes more
than 300 education sessions plus pre-conference education sessions with
symposia on clinical engineering, financial systems, health information
exchanges (HIEs), nursing informatics, payers, pharmacy IT, physicians' IT, and
supply chain management.
Once again, the Interoperability
Showcase will be a highlight of the 2010 conference with groundbreaking
demonstrations that utilize cutting-edge technology and standards to
demonstrate interoperability in an interactive environment. With the electronic
health record a reality on the exhibit floor, attendees will be able to create,
track and manage virtual electronic health records and personal health records
as they experience interoperability advances across both acute and outpatient
care environments.
Keynote speakers confirmed for
HIMSS10 include:
Dan Hesse,chief executive officer of Sprint Nextel
Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology
An interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta,CNN
senior medical correspondent, and fraud investigator Harry Markopolos
Chesley B. "Sully"
Sullenberger,
US Airways pilot and founder and CEO of Safety Reliability Methods
About HIMSS
The Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a comprehensive healthcare-stakeholder
membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for
the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the
betterment of healthcare. Founded in 1961 with offices in Chicago, Washington
D.C., Brussels, Singapore, and other locations across the United States, HIMSS
represents more than 23,000 individual members, of which 73% work in patient
care delivery settings. HIMSS also includes over 380 corporate members and
nearly 30 not-for-profit organizations that share our mission of transforming
healthcare through the effective use of information technology and management
systems. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public policy and industry practices
through its educational, professional development, and advocacy initiatives
designed to promote information and management systems' contributions to
ensuring quality patient care.
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IT gains jobs in December
-TechServe
Alexandria, VA, January 8, 2010 - IT employment has been stable in the second half of
2009, and has started to shows signs of growing as businesses begin to put delayed
projects back on-line, according to TechServe Alliance, a collaboration of IT services firms,
clients, consultants and suppliers.
IT employment was 3,821,600 in December 2009, which was an increase of 6,400, or about
0.2% percent from the November level.
IT jobs are found in virtually every sector and industry in varying degrees. The following table presents information about the total number of jobs in certain sectors that provide a significant amount of employment for IT professionals as well as to the number of all jobs. | |
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