Health

Quasars provides a wide range of information management and technical support services to the federal health community. We apply our expertise to meet the unique challenges inherent in health services and the research and development environment.

IT Acquisition and Finance Support

Quasars provides lifecycle Information Technology acquisition and financial management support to Federal Healthcare management organizations. We apply agile project management methodologies to our acquisition support to reduce the time to market by optimizing processes from requirements development through contract close-out. Quasars provides financial management support across the full broad spectrum of Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution activities and fully integrates this in our support to clients. Quasars applies ITIL best practices in all of our support to improve the quality of Information Technology Service Management (ITSM).

Clinical Study Services and Development Support

Quasars provides:

• • clinical trial technology support
• • healthcare data privacy management
• • data management and harmonization solutions
• • enterprise health research applications

Quasars has biomedical, health sciences, and healthcare expertise that spans analytical, toxicological, biomedical, survey and patient management services.

Quasars conducts, coordinates, and analyzes clinical and biomedical studies to support health research. Our services address preventative, diagnostic, and therapeutic issues in a public health context.

Information Management

Quasars works with the biomedical and health sciences communities to provide innovative and enhanced information management technologies to support medical research to improve the health of citizens. We leverage our institutional knowledge to develop, operate and maintain IT systems including software, processes and procedures that support government clinical and research activities. The objective is to directly support researchers and clinicians by performing health care systems studies and providing operational, technical and maintenance services for systems, subsystems and equipment that interface with and are extensions to information systems.

Regulatory Compliance: HIPPA and Section 508

HIPPA: Quasars has a deep appreciation for information and data security both internal to its day-to-day operations as well as for its clients. This experience is directly applicable to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) Security Rule as it relates to "electronic protected health information" (e-PHI) integrity, control, and disposition. This includes:

• • Ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, control, and disposition of all e-PHI that Quasars creates, receives, maintains or transmits
• • Identifying and protecting against reasonably anticipated threats to the security or integrity of information
• • Protecting against reasonably anticipated, impermissible uses or disclosures
• • Ensuring compliance by the Quasars Team workforce

Section 508: Our systems and solutions are designed with the end-user in mind. We have an experienced team of software developers and testers. We utilize state of the art custom tools and COTS applications to ensure that new and deployed systems are fully accessible to end-users.