Gunnison has supported several large survey research firms as well as the federal government in their most ambitious Health IT initiatives. An overview of some of these projects follows:

Gunnison, as a subcontractor to Westat Inc., helped develop the system architecture and telecommunications infrastructure for the CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the hallmark of which is several fully automated Mobile Exam Centers, which travel around the nation collecting health information on approximately 5,000 sampled people each year. The NHANES infrastructure consists of over 50 tightly integrated management, interview, examination, laboratory information and data analysis subsystems. Gunnison has been supporting the NHANES contract and its continuous technological innovations for over 10 years.

Gunnison, as a subcontractor to SSS, was recently awarded a 5-year contract to Support the National Children’s Study (http://www.s-3.com/images/PDFs/pr/pr-ims-win.pdf). The NCS is one of the nation’s largest and most important studies of environmental and genetic influences on children’s health and development. The study will enroll about 100,000 participants and track them from before birth to age 21. The main study, to begin in 2012, will involve more than 100 study locations around the country. Gunnison is leading the requirements definition and user acceptance testing subtasks for this important effort. Prior to the current award, Gunnison supported Westat in requirements and testing of the initial Vanguard phase for the NCS project.

Gunnison supported the design, development, testing and deployment of the Sister Study Information Management System. The Sister Study is the only long-term study of women aged 35 to 74 whose sister had breast cancer. It is a national study to learn how environment and genes affect the chances of getting breast cancer. It has recently exceeded its recruitment goal of recruiting 50,000 women whose sisters had breast cancer. (http://www.s-3.com/images/PDFs/pr/sisterpress.pdf)

Gunnison also supported the National Center for Health Statistics/Census Bureau in their efforts to modernize and fully automate the two major Ambulatory Health Care Surveys (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ahcd/about_ahcd.htm).

For more information on Gunnison’s Health IT capabilities, please contact Gunnison’s Project Director for Health IT Programs, Debbie Hillard: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .