Military to employ IT to improve traumatic brain injury care

WASHINGTON – The Military Health System will spend $14.1 million to enhance the collection of traumatic brain injury and associated behavioral health information for military service members throughout the entire continuum of care.

The program is managed from MHS' Defense Health Information Management System program office in support of the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs overarching response to the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors.

The Military Health System tapped Vagent, Inc. to do the job. Vangent will develop a clinical information technology solution to improve the workflow of patients' behavioral health information and integrate with the military's electronic health record.

When deployed, the technology will make behavioral health patients' information more quickly available for diagnosis, treatment and ultimately positive clinical outcomes, officials said.

Vangent's subcontractors include Akimeka, LLC; Guident, Inc.; Enterprise Information Management, Inc.; Forgentum, Inc. and n-tieractive, Inc.

"The Traumatic Brain Injury and Behavioral Health Clinical Data Documentation solutions are imperative to providing clinicians a tool to improve the treatment of our Wounded Warriors," said Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Vangent, Inc. "With Vangent's broad experience in healthcare, we are leveraging our experience to rethink the technologies and solutions utilized by our front-line clinicians providing care to their patients."

The award represents a major win for Vangent, which has grown its portfolio of military health business to more than $140 million over the past year providing mission critical services and support for health initiatives within the Department of Defense.

Other major contracts include the common user database for the Force Health Protection & Readiness Program, e-commerce operational system support for the TRICARE Management Activity and executive information and decision support for the Military Health System.