HHS Awards Contracts to Develop Nationwide Health Information Network

by Barbara Kram, Editor | November 14, 2005

* Northrop Grumman, working with Air Commander, Axolotl, Client/Server Software Solutions, First Consulting Group, SphereCom Enterprises, and WebMD. This group will work with the following health market areas: Santa Cruz RHIO (Santa Cruz, California); and HealthBridge (Cincinnati, Ohio); University Hospitals Health System (Cleveland, Ohio).

The four contracts result from an HHS Request for Proposals (RFP) that was announced by Secretary Leavitt and Dr. Brailer on June 6, 2005. HHS released the RFPs after receiving public comment on how best to achieve nationwide interoperability of health information through a Request for Information (RFI) published on Nov. 15, 2004.

More details on these contracts are available at www.hhs.gov/healthit.

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