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HHS awards contracts for health network
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Dec. 12, 2005
The Dept. of Health and Human Services on Nov. 10 awarded contracts totaling $18.6 million to four consortiums led by technology vendors to develop prototypes for a national health information network architecture.
Under the contracts, a partnership of technology companies with physicians and health care organizations in three local markets per consortium will design and implement different standards-based network architectures over the next 12 months.
At the end of that year, HHS will evaluate and pick the best features of each prototype, bringing them together into a flexible networking architecture that is expected to guide HHS' efforts to pursue a national health information network within 10 years
The vendors involved are Accenture, New York; Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo, Calif.; IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y., and Northrop Grumman Corp., Los Angeles.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/12/12/bibf1212.htm.
