General Dynamics awarded $2.5B IDIQ contract by the Indian Health Service

General Dynamics Information Technology, or GDIT, a business unit of General Dynamics, announced that it was awarded a $2.5B indefinite delivery, indefinite-quantity, or IDIQ, contract by the Indian Health Service, or IHS, to modernize its electronic health record, or EHR, system. The 10-year contract has a five-year base period with five option years. As an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, IHS provides federal health services to 2.6M American Indians and Alaska Natives belonging to 574 federally recognized tribes in 37 states. Under the contract, GDIT will replace the agency’s existing health record and patient system with a new cloud-based enterprise EHR system from Oracle Health. The new EHR will be hosted in a secure Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program high cloud environment, which will scale to meet the future needs of the program. This solution will enable better data access and sharing across geographically dispersed IHS and tribal health facilities nationwide, improving patient experience and quality of care.