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Initially, the Gateway will connect government healthcare providers withinthe Department of Defense, Veterans Administration, Social SecurityAdministration, and Indian Health Service to provide access and exchange ofvital patient medical records. The second phase of the Gateway deploymentwill move the core components into the public domain, essentially creating aWorld Wide Web for healthcare information exchange among providers of allspecialties and sizes.
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Under the contract, Harris will provide the Gateway Core Services,customized software that can be easily downloaded by providers to quicklyenable connection to the National Health Information Network; and a SoftwareDevelopment Kit which enables providers to customize the Gateway whileconnected to the network.
"Too many people die in the U.S. each year as a result of medical errors,and more than 30 percent of today's crippling healthcare costs are tied tooverhead activities such as moving paperwork around," said Jim Traficant, vicepresident of Harris Healthcare Solutions. "The Gateway offers the nextgeneration of capabilities in providing immediate access to vital medicalinformation. It will be a valuable tool for saving lives and reducing costsby sharing and managing information."
The Gateway will integrate and reuse technology based on the CancerBiomedical Informatics Grid used by the National Cancer Institute and the Bi-directional Health Information Exchange that currently provides for medicalinformation exchange between the Department of Defense and the VeteransAdministration. To provide the government with the lowest risk solution,Harris teamed with Agilex, Inc. and ScenPro, Inc. -- recognized experts ontechnologies used in these programs.
Harris Healthcare Solutions provides enterprise intelligence solutions andservices for commercial and government customers, including systemsintegration, intelligent infrastructure, advanced visualization and display,enterprise digital content management, and IT services solutions. Harrisproducts, systems, and services improve health outcomes by assuring thatcritical medical information is delivered with security and privacy to theright person, on the right device, at the point of care.
About Harris Corporation
Harris is an international communications and information technologycompany serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries.Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has annual revenue of almost$5 billion and 16,000 employees -- including nearly 7,000 engineers andscientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assuredcommunications(TM) products, systems, and services. Additional informationabout Harris Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com .
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