Leidos, a Fortune® 500 innovation company based out of Reston, Virginia, has recently been granted the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Development, Maintenance, Support and Modernization contract. The contract was bestowed upon the company by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. This crucial assignment worth a total of $51 million will be carried out over five years. Leidos is earmarked to employ its proficiency in data management and mission software to sustain the secure NHSN platform, inclusive of vital support apps and insights from allied federal institutions.
The NHSN, since its establishment in 2003, has served as a pivotal component in boosting patient safety and healthcare delivery across America. Liz Porter, the President of Leidos Health & Civil Sector underscored this point by accrediting their collaborative work with the CDC in enabling approximately 160,000 users, spanning over 38,000 facilities to gain access to reliable, actionable data. The successful joint effort has facilitated the safe transmission of healthcare data, thus promoting optimal patient outcomes and fostering system modernization and efficiency.
Leidos is poised to continue the advancement and modernization of the NHSN application, a platform which enables direct electronic messaging from electronic health records. This equips decision-makers with the capability to monitor healthcare system capacity, enables informed infection prevention strategies and tracks vaccination uptake in healthcare settings. More importantly, the platform keeps a check on blood safety errors, and aids in the prevention of both emerging and enduring health threats like COVID-19, healthcare-associated infections, and antimicrobial-resistant infections. The NHSN is utilized by most hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis facilities, and ambulatory surgery centers in the U.S. The contract extension allows Leidos to keep providing the essential data required to evaluate the success of preventive measures and practices in healthcare, which ultimately gauges the quality and safety of care dispensed in U.S. healthcare facilities.
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