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Colleagues,

The Veterans Affairs Department will give up to $80 million in contracts to the industry winners of the third round of the VA Industry Innovation ( VAi2) competition...

... The BAA (Broad Agency Announcement) will be available on or about June 1, 2010 and open until September 30, 2010...

...The goal of the competition is to stimulate ideas to increase veterans’ access to VA services, to reduce or control costs, to enhance VA performance or to improve the quality of service VA delivers to veterans, according to a notice published June 7 on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site...

...The VAi2 competition seeks ideas from contractors for innovative housing for homeless veterans, telehealth solutions for medical care delivered remotely, new models for dialysis and renal disease prevention, improvements in polytrauma care, reduction of adverse drug events, and solutions to assist veterans in starting new businesses ...

... Each award contract will have a two-year period of performance...

...On May 28, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki announced 26 winning ideas under that competition...See MedTech-IQ post: U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) Announces 26 Winning Ideas for He... ...

The 26 Winning Innovations were:
  • Reducing healthcare associated infections using informatics
  • CPRS (Computerized Patient Record System) -based automated queries and reports
  • Robust VA forms search engine
  • Augment CPRS with standards-based decision support engine
  • Enhanced care management to facilitate case management and chronic disease care
  • Integration of behavioral health lab and CPRS for mental health primary care
  • E-discharge pilot program
  • Show patient picture in CPRS
  • CPRS enhancement for veteran-centered care
  • "Parking" outpatient prescriptions to prevent waste
  • Suicide hotline: be a hero, save a hero
  • Touch screen device support for nursing triage of patients
  • Tools for front line veteran eligibility staffing
  • VA-wide core collection of knowledge based information resources
  • Integrate VistA surgery package with CPRS
  • Illustrated medication instructions for veterans
  • Share verified insurance info via use of the master patient index
  • Veteran online tracking of mail prescription delivery
  • Search function in CPRS
  • Accessible contact information for all assigned care providers
  • Online radiology protocoling tool integrated within CPRS/VistA
  • Wireless voice communications with hands free options
  • Improved access to military personnel records
  • Brief resident supervision index
  • Emergency medical response team communication
  • Reduce unnecessary/duplicate lab tests by rules-based algorithms


The point of contact for any questions related to this announcement and subsequent BAA may be addressed to Ms. Lauren Oliver, Contract Specialist, email: Lauren.Oliver@va.gov and Mrs. Carol Newcomb, Contracting Officer, email: Carol.Newcomb@va.gov.



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