WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2015
/PRNewswire/ -- PwC US today announced Google Inc.
(NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) is a part of the PwC team in the bid for the
Department of Defense (DoD) Healthcare Management Systems
Modernization (DHMSM) Electronic Health Record (EHR) contract. The
DHMSM program will replace and modernize the Military Health System
(MHS), which currently supports more than 9.7 million
beneficiaries, including active duty, retirees and their
dependents. The PwC proposal, called the Defense Operational
Readiness Health System (DORHS), will help modernize the military
health system by enabling doctors and healthcare professionals
inside and outside of government to more efficiently treat service
members and their families through the creation of a single source
for their medical records.
PwC and Google recently announced a joint business relationship
where the two organizations will team together to help companies
accelerate their journey to and build trust in the cloud. The
combined advantage of PwC and Google teaming together on the DORHS
proposal – along with commercial EHR vendors DSS, Inc. and
Medsphere Systems Corporation, MedicaSoft, and systems integrator
General Dynamics Information Technology -- offers the DoD a
distinctive, reliable and secure open source EHR solution with
innovative, user-friendly operations. In addition,
DORHS' flexibility will help prevent the federal government from
being locked into a single technology, avoiding "vendor lock" and
"innovation lag" which can occur with proprietary EHR and
technology companies.
"Google is known for its expertise in innovative, secure and
open technologies, and the power of Internet scale. Their
capabilities can complement our proposed open-architecture solution
and bring added value, agility and flexibility to the new Military
Health System," said Scott McIntyre,
PwC's Global and U.S. Public Sector Leader. "Google can assist us
in delivering a cost-effective and efficient solution to serve the
healthcare needs of our military."
PwC's technologically advanced, cost-effective DORHS solution
allows ongoing innovation, enabling agility and change to keep it
at the forefront of emerging digital technologies. The DORHS
solution addresses the complexities of successfully integrating an
EHR solution to deliver care to a global patient population in
multiple healthcare settings within a disparate healthcare provider
community comprised of both military and civilian
providers.
"Our solution is engineered to provide flexibility, cost
effectiveness and a platform that will stand the test of time, and
does not rely on unproven technologies or proprietary computing
platforms," said PwC's Health IT Leader, Dan Garrett. "We believe that our easy to
use solution will reduce the time it takes to adopt and train on a
new system, and it will help eliminate technical complexities that
usually are the cause of unnecessary 'budget creep' and
schedule slippages. Through teaming with our business and
technology vendors, such as Google, we will offer the DoD a highly
reliable, scalable, interoperable solution that can be implemented
on schedule and will enable the innovation needed for the future
without being locked into a specific vendor."
To learn more about PwC, PwC's Public Sector Practice, and the
DORHS solution for DHMSM, visit www.pwc.com/defensehealth.
PwC's Public Sector Practice is the proud recipient of a 2014
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
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