FHA awards CGI $5.7 million for CONNECT support

The Federal Health Architecture (FHA), under management of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), has awarded CGI Federal a $5.7 million contract to build, develop and support FHA’s CONNECT Nationwide Health Information Exchange Gateway Solution.

The one-year base contract includes four one-year options that can be executed to support development of the FHA’s CONNECT HIE gateway, according to CGI Federal, a wholly owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group, based in Fairfax, Va.

CGI Federal will partner with FHA and strategic partners to develop CONNECT into an open source tool that supports secure, standards-based health information exchange, the company added.

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