CAMRIS International

CAMRIS Announces New $ 79 Million Global Health Contract

[Bethesda, Maryland, USA] CAMRIS has announced the award of a new contract of over $79 million to provide technical assistance to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Assistance will be provided directly to USAID’s Bureau for Global Health (GH), Regional Bureaus, Overseas Regional Offices and Missions, through this new program entitled Global Health Support Initiative II (GHSI-II). Assistance that CAMRIS will provide is to include 90 senior program and technical experts serving USAID’s Global Health activities worldwide, in areas including: HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), policy support, infectious diseases, maternal and child health, preventive care, health communications, laboratory management, malaria, supply chain management, orphans and vulnerable children, and training. Under this project, CAMRIS will also provide long-term assistance in countries including: Armenia, Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, India, Kenya, L

CAMRIS Celebrates 47th Year of Work with USAID

CAMRIS is known throughout the U.S. for its leading edge services to support our national programs and particularly for serving our Veterans. CAMRIS is also known worldwide for excellence serving client programs to improve economic, social, political, and health conditions of people in all parts of the world. For 45 years, since our first contact with USAID in 1963 and with work in every year since, our most important partner in the international sphere has been the United States Agency for International Development (“USAID”). In fact, CAMRIS has worked with USAID in each year since its founding. Before USAID we assisted its predecessor organizations dating back to the Kennedy Administration in 1961, to address humanitarian needs and to counter instability posed by underdevelopment. To date CAMRIS has carried out assignments for USAID in 50 countries in all regions and in many technical areas. Today CAMRIS continues this proud tradition as it works on significant USAID assignments i

CAMRIS Wins Task Order To Support NAVMEDCEN San Diego Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department

New award under the NAVY “OMNIBUS – 2” Contract: CAMRIS International was awarded a 24-month contract to provide research support for the Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department. Research support to be provided to NMCSD includes research protocols and statistical design; database development; statistical analyses; and other areas related to ongoing research activities.

Award Notice: VA Great Lakes Health Care System

The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced its issuance of a new sole source contract to CAMRIS Teleradiology to provide teleradiology services throughout the VA Great Lakes Health Care System (VISN 12). The full announcement can be found on www.fedbizopps.gov. VA Great Lakes Health Care System is a group of seven VA medical centers and over thirty VA clinics that is dedicated to providing a comprehensive health care package to America's veterans. VA Great Lakes serves veterans who reside in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. CAMRIS Teleradiology has been providing teleradiology services to the VA Medical Centers of VISN 12 and their clinics since the beginning of 2007. Under the new award CAMRIS Teleradiology will provide diagnostic radiology services around the clock to patients at all facilities within the VA Great Lakes Health Care System.

Launch of the Military SDDC Knowledge Management (KM) Portal

As part of the program at the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC), during 2009 the CAMRIS/SDDC KM team conducted work so that SDDC could launch a new Portal in January 2010. The team developed a KM Portal Implementation Plan that enabled the SDDC G6 to deploy the portal using a “spiral development” approach. This approach avoids overwhelming users with new functionality and processes. The new portal, the main component behind the SDDC KM initiative, had more than 1,800 new users by mid-February 2010. The CAMRIS/SDDC team developed KM business rules, space for Communities of Practice (CoP), and an expert directory. When Haiti experienced an earthquake the team expedited spiral releases to meet the emerging need for collaboration on support to Haiti and opened up the Haiti CoP, a real world test of the system. This demonstrated how the Portal provides faster knowledge sharing, CoPs, and enables the user-base to create knowledge and facilitate decision-making.