Author: Michael Callihan

Mr. Callihan is President of AEGIS. He is a Project Management Institute (PMI) certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a certified Lean Six Sigma Sensei (LSSS). He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with degrees in Information and Decision Systems and Industrial Management. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Government Business Executive Forum (GBEF) and a member of the Executive Steering Committee of the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST).

How to Save Money on Interoperability

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Questionable Assumptions Threaten Federal Contracting Reform

There’s no question that federal contracting for technology services is finally achieving significant momentum toward innovations that are long overdue. To be clear: the acquisition techniques themselves are innovating in order to allow, in turn, for the end result of what the government receives to be technologically innovative. That’s a good thing. Nowhere in the […]

Great Day, Great Cause for Golf

On Tuesday, July 19, AEGIS sponsored the Beacon Health Options 4th annual Stamp Out Stigma golf outing at Bayville in Norfolk, Virginia. Once again this year, proceeds went to the National Military Family Association to improve support for servicemembers, Veterans, and their families recovering from mental illness. While it was also AEGIS’ 4th year sponsoring the […]

AEGIS Sponsors Beacon Health Options Fundraiser

AEGIS is proud to once again support our long-standing client, Beacon Health Options, the nation’s premier managed behavioral healthcare company as the exclusive Resiliency Sponsor for Beacon’s 4th Annual Stamp Out Stigma Golf Outing to benefit the National Military Family Association (NMFA). We have seen in our own personal lives the impact of mental illness… The golf outing promotes Stamp […]

AEGIS Wins Inaugural Capability Challenge

Earlier this month at the 2016 Capability Counts conference hosted by the CMMI Institute, I had the privilege of presenting AEGIS’ story of process improvement in the finals of the Capability Challenge. The Challenge began in December 2015 with a series of monthly webinars hosted by process improvement expert and podcasting star Tom Cagley of the […]

AEGIS’ Process Improvement Health Kick

This is a version of the story I told in January 2016 for the CMMI Institute’s Capability Challenge webinar series and again at the finals in Annapolis on May 9, 2016. The following day, May 10, AEGIS was awarded the inaugural Capability Challenge Championship. I hope you enjoy the story…. Our process improvement journey has […]

FHIR’d Up for HIMSS16

Following the political party caucuses, the presidential candidates will be long gone from Las Vegas when HIMSS16 spins up on February 29. But the debates will only be getting started. Which electronic health record is the best? Which middleware works or doesn’t work? Whose standards are going to be adopted? How should the government fix Meaningful […]

CES 2016 Part 2

I had the opportunity to attend the annual Consumer Electronics Show this year in Las Vegas as well as the CES Government (CESG) conference that took place just before the big show. The obvious reaction one has to a trip like this is, “Seriously? That’s a boondoggle if I’ve ever heard of one!” However, trusted […]

CES 2016 Part 1

Open Health News Publishes AEGIS Piece on FHIR, Touchstone

Open Health News has published another article authored by Mario Hyland and Barry Dickman that covers HL7, FHIR, and the role the AEGIS Touchstone Project plays in the the FHIR interoperability ecosystem. Check it out over at the OHT site!