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According to an announcement on the Federal Business Opportunities site, the US Coast Guard has awarded a $2.3 million contract to Lockheed Martin to develop mobile access to the Coast Guard's electronic health records system. Lockheed will develop a secure mobile interface that can access data from the Coast Guard's 43 clinics and one support facility, which are located all over the US and as far away as Hawaii and Alaska. The one year contract also has four more one year extension options.
Lockheed will enable providers working for the Coast Guard to access medical information from their mobile devices and tablets whether they are at a patient's bed side, looking to review lab data remotely, or are located at a disaster recovery site. The Coast Guard's health records system is based on Epic.
For more on the Lockheed-Coast Guard deal, read this post over at Government Health IT.
Separately, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it has chosen a vendor for its mobile device management (MDM) project, which has been in the works for some time. The VA's CIO Roger Baker said that his office would notify the winning vendor on September 30. The MDM project will enable the VA to securely support more than 100,000 smartphone and tablet devices, including VA-owned devices and the personal devices that employees and medical students bring into work.
The VA first announced the MDM project a year ago and stated that its rollout would take 18 months at the time. Now, 12 months later, the VA predicts it will take about another year to roll it out.
