By Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has picked Companion Data Services (CDS) to provide data processing and hosting operations for a system that will track incentive payments to heathcare providers that adopt electronic health records.
The contract for the data processing and hosting services is for one year, with four one-year renewal options. If all options were exercised, the contract value would be about $24 million.
CDS will host the National Level Repository (NLR) system on a state-of-the-art Linux platform, which combines significant mainframe processing power with application design flexibility, according to CDS.
The NLR system will reside in the data center at CDS headquarters in Columbia, S.C., and it will be hosted and operated by CDS.
Under a separate contract, CDS also will provide application development consultant services to Northrop Grumman Corp., which was selected recently by CMS to design and develop the NLR system.
