PRLog

Amida Technology Solutions, Inc., a DC-based company focused on information security and data management, today announced that Michael D. Lumpkin has agreed to assume the role of President.

The Hill

From a safety and security perspective, the technology industry today is where the automotive industry was 60 years ago, when manufacturers were reluctant to prioritize safety features.

PRLog

Amida Technology Solutions, Inc., a DC-based company focused on information security and data management, today announced that EDA-industry icon Joe Costello joined the company as a member of the Board of Directors.

PRLog

Amida Technology Solutions, Inc., a DC-based company focused on information security and data management today announced that Michael D. Lumpkin has joined the company as Chief Growth Officer.

GCN

Unless and until the U.S. gets serious about supply chain management generally, and cybersecurity specifically, the world’s most powerful defense establishment will continue to overstress unsustainable force projection instead of more response-nuanced preparation to 21st century threats.

Brookings TechTank

While the U.S. employed every possible resource to develop the COVID-19 vaccines, we are neglecting to use the best available information technologies to efficiently distribute them. We could do a much better job fighting this pandemical war with weapons we already have.

Baltimore Sun

The U.S. may not have enough trained people and core competencies to combat climate change, defeat contagious viruses or compete in the growing market for advanced energy systems. There are three decisions we can make that would put the U.S. on proper footing.

PRLog

Amida has been awarded an option year renewal of its Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with the U.S. Department of the Navy to study Cyber Threat Insertion and Evaluation Technology for Navy Ship Control Systems. The research addresses vulnerabilities in military hardware that can be exploited by adversaries.

PRLog

Amida has been awarded a three-year, $17 million prime contract from the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to support the Modern Claims Processing (MCP) support services program.

Wall Street Journal

Semiconductors underlie many things we take for granted and desperately need. If a digital catastrophe hit, the basic fabric of modern life would take years to recover.

PRLog

Amida Technology Solutions, Inc., a DC-based company focused on data management, data security, and information architecture, today announced that prominent software and IT services executive Donna Morea would be joining the company’s board.

Amida Celebrates its 6th Anniversary

Peter L. Levin, co-founder and CEO of Amida Technology Solutions, Inc., delivered remarks on Amida’s goals and values in an address to the team celebrating our 6th anniversary. Click the image above to read the full remarks.

Remarks at the White House

Peter L. Levin, co-founder and CEO of Amida Technology Solutions, Inc., and former CTO at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, discussed the importance of data management and data access, and how our government is uniquely positioned to leverage both to match workers to jobs, and keep unemployment low. Read the full remarks here.

PR Newswire

Amida Technology Solutions, Inc., a DC-based company focused on data management, data security, and information architecture, delivered a series of security-related research papers at the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security and the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society.

Foreign Affairs

Amida Board member Michéle Flournoy comments on the future of internet security and issues a call to action for changes to American cyber defense.

Wilkie testifies before Senate

Peter L. Levin, co-founder and CEO of Amida Technology Solutions, Inc., and former CTO at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, joined a panel of experts to discuss the confirmation hearing of  Robert Wilkie.

vpnMentor

Data is key to providing modern and complex problems and providing services in a timely fashion. However, data is often stored or accessed in ways that are single-use and are difficult to extract. 

Fortune

Earlier this month at a national health information technology conference, the Trump Administration announced an initiative to put patients in charge of their own health care data, improve data interoperability, and encourage data-driven innovation to improve patient health and outcomes. 

PR Newswire

This afternoon, Peter L. Levin, co-founder and CEO of Amida Technology Solutions, Inc. (Amida), and former CTO at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, will discuss “Modern Data Management: Exploring the Root Problem and Way Forward,” at the first ever Washington Big Data conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

TEDx

More people die from avoidable medical errors than from gunshot wounds, breast cancer, and vehicular accidents combined. 

But the medical data that could save those lives are trapped in multiple layers of paper and obsolete IT systems. Peter shares potential solutions to “frack” and liberate these layers of data to save lives.

Foreign Affairs

How to Think About Intelligent Autonomous Systems in the Military

Center for a New American Security

Senior leaders across the defense establishment are justifiably concerned about the erosion of U.S. military technical superiority and have recently launched several 

Federal Computer Week

Avoidable medical errors — so-called preventable adverse events, or PAEs — contribute to the deaths of approximately 400,000 Americans each year. 

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Unless we prioritize government collection, analysis, and distribution of data, public officials will continue to make decisions with limited facts, and citizens will get poorer services from the government than from the private sector.

The Hill

The recent cyber intrusions into Sony and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management have highlighted to the general public a festering weakness

Medium

Mehret is with Amida Technology Solutions, Ellen is with Medecision, and Peter is with Amida Technology Solutions

Techonomy

In 1899, so the fable goes, a hapless director of the patent office suggested to then-President McKinley that the agency be abolished because “everything that can be invented has been invented.”

Strategic additions include Scott Gould, Sonal Shah, Dan Boneh, Alec Ross as advisors, and Chantale Wong and Alicia Phillips Mandaville in senior management roles

PR Newswire

Now includes CMS Blue Button file support and improved matching capabilities

Foreign Affairs

Assigning blame for Healthcare.gov’s disastrous rollout has been about as entertaining as thrashing about in a room full of piñatas without a blindfold

Foreign Policy

Can we stop bad guys from getting into U.S. networks?

Foreign Affairs

There is a hilarious scene in the 1991 movie “L.A. Story” in which the protagonist, Harris (Steve Martin, who also wrote the screenplay), is mugged on a busy street as he withdraws cash from an ATM. The cavalier crook happens to be next in an adjacent line of stalkers, and he introduces himself as “your robber today”

The Healthcare IT Guy

I had the privilege of working with Dr. Peter Levin as an outside technology strategy adviser while he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Veterans Affairs during the first Obama Administration

Politico

A single, joint, integrated electronic health record system is affordable, fast, and straightforward.