The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded a $230 million health IT contract to Computer Sciences Corp. for migrating key IT systems to a new service-oriented architecture.
CSC will consolidate three groups of applications in designing and developing the architecture for CMS, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. The application groups are for the Standard Data Processing System, Value Based Purchasing and End Stage Renal Disease. The company also will support the "collection, analysis, reporting and management of claims, clinical, survey and project data from Medicare and Medicaid providers," according to a CSC news release.
"CSC has worked closely with CMS for more than a decade and we are pleased to offer an evolutionary road map to transform its existing legacy applications into a service-oriented platform," said Dr. Robert Wah, vice president and chief medical officer of CSC's North American Public Sector. He predicted that upgrading and consolidating systems "will improve quality of care and save money."
The agreement is technically a task order under a 2007 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. After a six-month base period, CMS will have the option to renew the contract for six one-year periods.
CSC's partners on the contract include 2020 Company of Falls Church, Va., and General Dynamics Information Technology's ViPS, in Baltimore, Md.
John Pulley
John Pulley has written the Health IT Update blog since May 2011. Prior to becoming a regular contributor to Nextgov, he covered technology for Federal Computer Week and Government Health IT magazines. He has written about government for Federal Times and Air Force Times, as well. Pulley has worked in journalism for more than 20 years. He began his career covering local government for regional newspapers. In addition, he served as a writer and senior editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education for seven years. In 2006, he founded The Pulley Group, an editorial services agency.
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