WASHINGTON and MELBOURNE, Fla., April
5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS),
an international communications and information technology company,
has been awarded a 10-month, follow-on contract by Evolvent
Technologies Inc. for ongoing enhancements to a military health
network that exchanges patient records and images with Veterans
Administration (VA) facilities and other medical centers.
Evolvent is the prime contractor for the U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD) Healthcare Artifact and Image Management Solution
(HAIMS).
This solution will ultimately provide all hospitals, medical
centers, and dental and medical clinics within the Military Health
System (MHS) enterprise-wide access to, and viewing of, healthcare
artifacts and images. An artifact is any file that adds value
to a patient's electronic health record. Artifacts include
any type of captured image other than diagnostic medical imagery,
such as electronic scans of paper medical records, photographs and
handwritten notes. HAIMS also has the flexibility to handle
documents, video and audio files.
Harris is providing support in the areas of system development
and software design for the Web-based HAIMS solution. The
team recently completed similar tasks under the first phase of the
HAIMS contract, which will be deployed at nine DoD user sites and a
data center.
"Successful completion of HAIMS Phase I is a significant
milestone in implementing the new MHS enterprise," said
Jim Traficant, vice president of
Harris Healthcare Solutions. "This brings MHS closer to a
next-generation solution that will help save lives and improve care
for our wounded warriors, veterans and their families."
Under Phase II, Harris will continue to support the enhancement
of the functionality of the system. New features will include
capabilities for performing bulk scanning of healthcare artifacts,
allowing HAIMS to ingest artifacts and images provided by external
healthcare systems – as well as allowing HAIMS to interact within
the DoD's electronic health records system. Phase II includes
deployment of the system to an additional 16 sites.
Over the past several years, MHS has managed more than 750,000
in-theater medical encounters. The lack of ready access to
wounded-warrior artifact and image information over the course of
treatment and recovery has posed a challenge to MHS providers.
The HAIMS solution will enable the DoD and the VA to expand
their interoperability by sharing health artifact and image
information from the military theater all the way back to the
clinic.
The HAIMS program was awarded to Evolvent Technologies, Inc., a
leading provider of healthcare information technology to the
federal government, as part of the Defense Medical Information
Systems/Systems Integration, Design, Development, Operations and
Maintenance Services 3 contract.
Harris Healthcare Solutions provides secure enterprise
intelligence solutions and services for government and commercial
customers – including systems integration, intelligent
infrastructure, advanced visualization and display, enterprise
digital content management and IT solutions. A leader in
federal healthcare IT integration, Harris products, systems and
services improve healthcare outcomes by assuring that critical
medical and benefits information is delivered with security and
privacy to the right person, on the right device, at the point of
care.
About Harris Corporation
Harris is an international communications and information
technology company serving government and commercial markets
worldwide. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has
approximately $5 billion of annual
revenue and more than 15,000 employees — including nearly 7,000
engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing
best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and
services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is
available at www.harris.com.
SOURCE Harris Corporation