NCI Information Systems is a leading provider of Health IT solutions for public health and healthcare programs across the Federal Government. In supporting HHS, VA, and DoD missions, NCI enables improved healthcare outcomes through innovation, efficiency, and technical excellence in service. NCI’s Health IT professionals include public health subject-matter experts, technology specialists, trainers, healthcare administrators, bioenvironmental engineers, physiologists, and physicians. NCI’s Health IT solutions encompass a full range of technology and professional service offerings, including: Infrastructure and Application Consolidation, Modernization, Virtualization and Operations/Maintenance; Enterprise Systems Management and Systems/Network Engineering; Desktop Management and Service Desk operations; Advanced Analytics and Informatics; and Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Health Information Exchange (HIE). In bringing our IT experience to the medical domain, NCI has also developed specialized expertise in medical logistics transformation. Medical transformation services include: Strategic Planning/Consulting; Access-to-care; Doctrine/Policy Development; Occupational and Environmental Health Programs; Preparedness and Contingency Planning; Aeromedical Evaluation and Combat Casualty Care; and Medical Education and Training.

1. Medical Transformation/Health IT
By combining comprehensive DoD medical business acumen Strategic Planning/Consulting
with relevant IT, NCI has become a leader in DoD medical Access-to-Care
logistics transformation field. We blend deep functional Data/System Consolidation, Migration, and Modernization
subject-matter expertise with diverse technical talent, Doctrine/Policy Development
including public health experts, health care administrators, Occupational, Environmental, and Population
network engineers, medical trainers, IT specialists, bioenvi- Health Programs
ronmental engineers, aerospace physiologists, and physicians. Preparedness and Contingency Planning
Our capabilities and infrastructure support all aspects of Aeromedical Evaluation, Combat Casualty Care
medical transformation and health IT, including: Medical Education and Training
Photo Credit: U.S. Army
Case Study: Defense Medical Logistics
Transformation (DMLT)
“Enhancing health care delivery while
promoting readiness and sustainability”
NCI is an integral part of a unique partnership composed of
the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia on behalf of Defense
Logistics Agency, Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support
(DMLSS) Program Office, Office of the Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Force Health Protection and Readiness),
and Army, Navy, and Air Force medical logistics activities. The
DMLSS partnership engages the wholesale medical logistics,
medical information management, medical IT, user communities,
and the health care industry to enhance health care delivery in
peacetime and to promote wartime readiness and sustainability.
NCI enables DoD medical logistics business processes and IT
transformation across multiple DoD services and agencies by
providing expert services in enterprise architecture, health
care logistics, business analysis, data management, and change
management. Some significant accomplishments include:
maintaining an enterprise architecture repository for Defense
Medical Logistics and published artifacts for global use by
authorized DoD personnel; developing and documenting
improved, standardized processes that enable logistics integration
for BRAC-mandated medical consolidation; improving
standardization of commercial medical products used in
military health care and lifecycle management of deployable
medical assemblages; and developing innovative, Web-based
training for medical logistics workforce with practical
applications of DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF)
–compliant architectures to improve workplace processes.
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