Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) will integrate electronic health records for the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs under an $80.3 million contract, the company announced Thursday.
The departments will share information as military service members move from active duty into retirement, said Jim Traficant, president of healthcare solutions.
Military retirees who move from the Pentagon’s health system to the VA’s often receive duplicate tests and go through waits, he added in the release.
The Melbourne, Fla.-based contractor holds a position on the VA’s Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology, or T4, contract vehicle that was awarded in September 2011.
The goal of the T4 contract is to consolidate operations at more than 150 VA hospitals, the company said.
The company will create a services oriented architecture for integration and communications and expects the platform to be released in early 2014.
The departments and the company will work to establish a demonstration site by September 2012 and conduct a full site deployment in August 2013, according to the release.
The company will also introduce a common federated middleware as a virtualized infrastructure, giving Pentagon and VA users a system that primarily uses cloud computing.
The goal of the project is to combine the departments’ healthcare information systems and 200 data centers.
