VA awards $16.1 million contract for mobile radiology viewing apps

By Admin On 16 Jun 2014 in Computer and Related Services

Agilex, a leading provider of mission and technology solutions to the federal government, announced today that it was contract awarded a one year $16.1 million competitive contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop and implement VA’s enterprise Web and Mobile Application Image Viewing Solution. Agilex will build upon Calgary Scientific’s ResolutionMD® enterprise image-viewer to facilitate VA clinicians nationwide with secure, on-demand access to radiological images throughout a variety of mobile and desktop devices.

Clinicians will be adept to use the visualization and workflow tools on smartphones, tablets and desktops.

The solution will help VA improve care by accelerating and improving diagnosis and treatment, strengthening collaboration, and help cut costs. Images will be more widely and easily accessible.

The telehealth options will be intensified and expanded through Agilex’s new solution. Facilitating a chance in the traditional health care model, with the use of mHealth technologies to connect patients and health care other services anywhere, by exercising this same model for clinicians, diagnostic images will turn into more easily accessible, improving care quality and clinician efficiency, thus making VA a leader in mHealth technologies, says, Dr. Wyatt Smith, vice president of health care strategies for Agilex.

FDA showed an approval to the ResolutionMD, which shall be directly, unified with the VA mobile framework and the VistA clinical systems.Read complete story at http://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/vawards-161-million-contract-mobile-radiology-viewingpps-32.php