Aquilent Wins Contract for My HealtheVet Core Development and Enhancements.Aquilent Awarded Contract to Provide Services to Continue Development and Enhancement of VA's My HealtheVet (MHV MHV mouse hepatitis virus. ) Portal LAUREL, Md. -- Aquilent, Inc. announced today the award of a contract from the Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) to provide services to continue the development and enhancement of the My HealtheVet (MHV) Portal. The base period of the contract is 12 months and valued at $2.1M, with a 12 month contract option of similar value. My HealtheVet is an ehealth portal that gives veterans, their families and their healthcare providers easy access to health information, tools and services. The portal has progressed through a successful pilot and multiple successive versions. Aquilent's development team will work with MHV's Product Lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. Management Team to develop new portal infrastructure components and features, to integrate features within the defined portal architecture, and to perform functional application-level testing of features. Features include a prescription (Rx) refill function, ability to view appointments and co-pay balances, and veterans' access to personal health records. "Aquilent is proud to support our Veterans through the MHV program," said David Fout, Aquilent's President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We are privileged to join the ranks of a combined team of VA staff and contractors who share our commitment to the health and welfare of those who have proudly served our country. The MHV program was looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a partner who has demonstrated high quality technical capabilities in support of large and highly-visible government portals. The award of this contract reflects our team's experience over more than 25 years in user-centered design In broad terms, user-centered design (UCD) is a design philosophy and a process in which the needs, wants, and limitations of the end user of an interface or document are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process. and software development." This award demonstrates Aquilent's ability to provide a project team with insight into VA's core business and expertise in the MHV technologies, including Java Enterprise Edition, BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. Web Logic, XML/HTML, Solaris, Oracle, the Rational Unified Process The Unified Software Development Process or Unified Process is a popular iterative and incremental software development process framework. The best-known and extensively documented refinement of the Unified Process is the Rational Unified Process or RUP. (RUP (Rational Unified Process) Software from IBM that provides guidelines, templates and examples for each team member in the system development process. Supporting the Unified Modeling Language (UML), RUP can be used with other Rational tools to provide a uniform set of ) and Rational software development tools, quality assurance and automated testing, web usability and accessibility. About Aquilent Aquilent is an award-winning company with an over 25-year history providing innovative information technology and web-based services to federal agencies. Aquilent improves the quality and efficiency of service to citizens, employees, and businesses through a premiere suite of solutions and services, including enterprise acquisition and finance solutions, public and private web presence, regulatory management solutions, and information management and access systems. Additional information about Aquilent is available at www.aquilent.com. |
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