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June 7, 2010
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TECH TAKES
ON SICKNESS
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| Join us tomorrow at Bisnow's "Technology Strategies for Non-Profits and Associations." It's not too late (but getting close) to sign up! We've assembled a diverse array of experts to debate the merits of cloud IT services. BLT Steak. June 8. Sign up now! |
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| Slap a jersey on it and healthcare is hotter than Stephen Strasburg, so this morning we stopped by the Reagan Building for Health 2.0, a traveling circus-type healthcare conference based in San Francisco. |
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| dLife CEO Howard Steinberg says his company provides a portal for people with diabetes, a common disease but one that 85% of patients get care for through a primary case physician. “Doctors are overwhelmed and most people end up treating diabetes themselves,” says Howard, whose site features diabetes-friendly recipes, daily tips, and videos that “go beyond a doctor in a sweater and a plant.” (Are doctor videos where viral videos came from?) |
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| Alex Drane is president at Eliza, a MA-based company that calls and texts people to make healthier choices, without sugarcoating the problem. “We get people who hang up on us and swear at us because we call them out on bad health choices,” says Eliza of the company’s "overbearing-mother nagging-technique." We see room for expansion if it will also tell you to meet a nice girl, put your degree to work, and stop hanging out with those loser friends. |
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| From the user point of view: About.com’s Trisha Torrey, Alere’s Gordon Norman, HHS Health Communications Lead Linda Harris, and Markie Foundation’s Carol Diamond. Trisha says the typical user doesn’t know what meaningful use is, and the current tools provided to patients aren’t adequate in providing needs. What she wants to see is things like DestinationRX, a portal that lets people shop prescription drug costs, available in a doctor’s office. “If my doctor says Lipitor, I want to pull up the page right then and see if it's cost effective,” Trisha says. Not tech related, but Gordon says people these days are more likely to die from “suicide by fork” instead of old-school plagues like polio. |
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| So, Another Incoming Contract? |
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Clever headline, huh? Not bad for a Monday. Earlier today SAIC announced it was awarded an $80 million follow on, a Seaport-e task order through the Naval Surface Warfare Center. SAIC will train sailors in manners in meeting standards to maintain, operate, and employ surface ship weapon and combat systems while at sea at the Center for Surface Combat Systems in Dahlgren, Va. SAIC will also provide systems engineering and training services to CSCS in areas including manpower and personnel, infrastructure, training management and technical and international programs. |
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| Sunny Days |
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| Congrats to Sunny Bajaj, CEO of Bethesda-based Digital Management (and college roommate of Vivek Kundra) after his company won a 5-year, $288 Million Application Product Lines Enterprise Services contract from the Coast Guard Operations Systems Center in a partnership deal with GD and CSC. Under the contract, Digital Management will work to modernize OSC service offerings, with the intent of becoming the leading Maritime Data Fusion Service Center with DHS. |
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