CAMRIS International

Bethesda office closed due to severe weather

CAMRIS International offices in suburban Maryland will be closed due to the severe winter weather affecting the Mid-Atlantic region. Non-emergency employees can telework or are hereby granted unscheduled leave. Telework employees are expected to work from their telework sites. Emergency employees are expected to report for work on time. Employees working on project sites will follow specific guidance provided by project office.

Contract Award: Naval Medical Reseach Center OMNIBUS-2

CAMRIS announced today its receipt of an award under the U.S. Navy “OMNIBUS-2” contract with a contract value of $20 million. The purpose of this contract is to provide support for Nava l Medical Research Center (NMRC) under the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) and their subordinate research and development commands over the next five years as they carry out their mission objectives. These include: development of health care policy; health care delivery; research, development, tests, and evaluations; and to serve as an effective instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy by initiating and continuing programs which promote positive relations around the world. In addition to the services it is now providing under OMNIBUS 2, CAMRIS continues to provide technical and research support services to a number of subordinate commands in the U.S. and overseas including under separate contract vehicles. These include the ongoing OMNIBUS-1 ID/IQ contract for Research and Development (R&D)

Contract Award: USAID Office of the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Secretariat

CAMRIS International announced the award of a new five year contract to provide experts to support the USAID Office of the Chief Operating Officer and the Executive Secretariat. Under this contract CAMRIS will provide analyses on specific issues that arise such as budgeting, civilian/military coordination matters, aid effectiveness, food security, reconstruction and stabilization, and global climate change. Such studies will provide the necessary information to inform the decision making process from the Agency Policy Coordination Committees, through the Deputy Assistant Administrator Committee, to the Cabinet and thus to the Administrator.

Contract Award: Peru Tropical Medicine Field Research

CAMRIS International announced the award of a new contract from the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) to provide operational and research support services in support of the NMRC Detachment Peru (NMRCD-Peru). Under this contract CAMRIS will support NMRCD-Peru and its tropical medicine research and surveillance program including research in virology, entomology, bacteriology and parisitology. Simultaneously with announcement of this award, CAMRIS announced receipt of the first work order under this contract, with an estimated $10 million provided to support operations of the NMRCD-Peru field research laboratory located in the city of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon, with approximately 100 full time personnel. Hosted by the Peruvian Navy and collocated at their flagship hospital in Lima, NMRCD-Peru conducts research on and surveillance of a wide range of infectious diseases that threaten military operations in the region. They include malaria and dengue fever, yellow fever, viral e

CAMRIS Teleradiology Expands Services Throughout Kansas and Missouri

CAMRIS eHealth announced today that it has begun full-service 24 hour diagnostic radiology services via teleradiology in Kansas and Missouri for the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). These services will provide critical patient care for the VA "Heartland Network-VISN 15 Western Orbit." CAMRIS radiologists now provide diagnostic radiology services via teleradiology to newly initiated VISN 15 hospitals and satellite clinics including the Dwight D. Eisenhower VA Medical Center in Leavenworth, Kansas; the Colery-O'Neil VA Medical Center in Topeka, Kansas; the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas; and the Kansas City VA Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. These four VAMCs and their satellite clinics, which provide medical services to nearly a half million of America's Veterans, join VA facilities currently serviced by CAMRIS in Illinois, Michigan, Tennessee and Wisconsin, expanding CAMRIS’s commitment and leaders