Harris Corporation Awarded Two Contracts to Manage and Populate the Defense and Veterans Eye Injury and Vision Registry
November 29 2011 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications
and information technology company, has been awarded a pair of
contracts to help improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment
of eye-related injuries and diseases affecting active-duty service
members and veterans.
The National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 directed the
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD)
"to establish a center of excellence in the prevention, diagnosis,
mitigation, treatment, and rehabilitation of military eye
injuries." For the past year, Harris has worked with the resulting
Vision Center of Excellence and Defense Health Information
Management System to design, develop and deploy a Defense and
Veterans Eye Injury and Vision Registry to record the occurrence,
treatment and outcomes of military eye-related injuries.
Harris completed development six months ahead of the
government’s schedule and the software was ranked “world class”
after the code quality reviews resulted in an error density of only
.08 percent.
Under the first new contract, Harris will operate, maintain and
enhance the registry for three years, working as a subcontractor to
Pelatron, Inc. The total contract value for Harris is $2.8
million.
Under the second five-year, $14.3 million contract, Harris will
populate the registry with information from medical records and
other documentation for all eye injuries sustained by service
members. DoD and VA medical researchers will mine this massive
dataset for information on care and outcomes that will be used to
improve eye-injury treatment protocols on and off the
battlefield.
“As eye injury rates on the battlefield remain high, the Defense
and Veterans Eye Injury and Vision Registry is a critically
important new tool in the effort to improve care for our service
members and veterans,” said Jim Traficant, president, Harris
Healthcare. “The work done by Harris to collect treatment and
outcome information will allow the Vision Center of Excellence to
conduct multidimensional studies to improve readiness, and enhance
patient care and outcomes.”
A nationally recognized leader in federal healthcare IT
integration, Harris also offers commercial providers a full range
of interoperability solutions, including IT infrastructure and
management, clinical workflow and analytics, health information
exchange, and imaging. Harris solutions improve healthcare quality,
safety, efficiency, cost and outcomes by ensuring that the right
information travels, with security and privacy, to the right
person, at the right time, 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 in
more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the
company has approximately $6 billion of annual revenue and about
17,000 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.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that
reflect management's current expectations, assumptions and
estimates of future performance and economic conditions. Such
statements are made in reliance upon the safe harbor provisions of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The company cautions investors
that any forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that may cause actual results and future trends to
differ materially from those matters expressed in or implied by
such forward-looking statements. Statements about the expected
value of the program to Harris are forward-looking and involve
risks and uncertainties. Harris disclaims any intention or
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events, or
otherwise.
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