AMDEX Wins Contract to Enhance Innovative Telemedicine Technologies at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Firm is Awarded a Third National Institutes of Health (NIH) TELESYNERGY® Medical Consultation WorkStation Contract

Silver Spring, Maryland, May 7, 2010 - AMDEX Corporation, a CMMI Level 3 rated, IT and Professional Services firm has been awarded a five-year contract to enhance and support innovative telemedicine technologies for the Computational Bioscience and Engineering Laboratory (CBEL). CBEL is a biomedical research and development organization at the Center for Information Technology (CIT) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This is the third competitive award that AMDEX has won to support CBEL projects.

As part of this contract, AMDEX will continue to support the TELESYNERGY® Medical Consultation WorkStation, a multimedia, medical imaging workstation that allows radiologists and other medical professionals to collaborate on cancer research and treatment throughout the world. The WorkStation is utilized by 26 national and international institutions including the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In addition, AMDEX will provide programming support for CBEL’s Organ and Lesion Volume Server (OLVS) project, and Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) services. AMDEX has been providing programming support to the NIH/CBEL since 2002.


Telemedicine, a growing field within the healthcare industry, is the application of clinical medicine via audiovisual tools used to assist or perform medical consultations, diagnoses, collaborations or procedures. As an integral part in the future of healthcare, Telemedicine is being researched and utilized by many federal agencies as a means of providing more effect and cost-efficient healthcare. In 2003, agencies within the Federal government were estimated to have provided 350,000 patient services through the usage of Telemedicine.


“We are excited about the opportunity to provide medical expertise to expand the field of Telemedicine” said Devinder K. Singh, President and CEO, AMDEX Corporation. “Our contract at the NIH will allow us to expand our growing healthcare portfolio in support of biomedical research and healthcare activities.”


Within this contract, AMDEX reaffirms its position as a leader in the healthcare industry and strengthens its expertise in image processing and medical imaging by designing and customizing software applications, enhancing system capabilities & functionality, and other solutions. AMDEX aims to improve health safety & quality, knowledge dissemination, increase efficiencies, eliminate redundancies, and decrease paperwork to enhance the nation’s healthcare infrastructure.


About AMDEX Corporation
AMDEX Corporation is a rapidly growing, CMMI Level 3 rated, Small, Woman-Owned, Disadvantaged Business founded in 1987. AMDEX is structured into three service areas including: Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), Health, Safety & Quality (HSQ), and Business Consulting & Technology (BCT). AMDEX provides national defense and civilian agencies (including DHS, DoD, and DHHS) with custom software development support, systems and data security, data center operations, and human subject protection in research review services.


AMDEX Headquarters is located in Silver Spring, Maryland just outside of our nation’s capital. Since its founding, AMDEX has received numerous awards in recognition of its service excellence including the Department of Homeland Security’s Small Business Achievement Award.


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