CMS challenges developers to create tools to screen docs; NIH awards $20B HIT services contract to ManTech subsidiary;

> New healthcare information technology systems will be developed for the Military Health System's Pacific Joint Information Technology Center on Maui thanks to a five-year, $300 million contract awarded to Washington, D.C.-based LongView International Technology Solutions by TRICARE Management Activity. Announcement

> In an attempt to develop a multi-state, multi-program method for screening healthcare providers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a developer's challenge in Tuesday's Federal Register. The challenge will be administered by the National Aeronautic and Space Administration's (NASA) Federal Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation. Notice

> Evolvent Technologies, a subsidiary of Fairfax, Va.-based ManTech International Corporation, was awarded a 10-year, $20 billion contract to provide health IT services to the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC), Government Health IT reports. Article

And Finally… He sure showed them! Article