ASM Research lands on $162 million deal to update VA’s VistA Computer Hardware and Software Services

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been awarded ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services Company, a three-year, $162 million contract to support the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) Clinical Application and Enterprise Core Services.

VistA is the award winning health IT sytem by VA, facilitating an unified inpatient and outpatient Electronic Health Record (EHR) system to improve quality medical care for veterans and their families.

The VistA Core project functioning is developed to boost and expand veteran healthcare services. Work covered by the contract provides greater interoperability of systems and healthcare records and will match the highest safety standards.

ASM also aims to update VistA’s Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS), facilitating a modern, web-based access to patient records, a feature of VistA that facilitates clinicians, managers, support staff and researchers an integrated patient record management system, which engages a single interface for physicians to manage patient care and records.

According to Traficant, president of ASM Research and a managing director at Accenture Federal Services - VistA Enterprise Core Services will renovate the VistA functioning and information access all through the sequence of patient care for our veterans.

The new functions of the contract also will help enhance data sharing across the VA, covering care transitions and employment of standards of care. ASM will provide technical architecture, clinical analysis, engineering management, software development and training to support VistA upgrade.

The VA’s potential to enhance data interoperability will have a powerful effect on the VA’s plan of the quality of care, patient safely and healthcare measures, says, John Fraser, ASM Research executive vice president and COO.