Artemis ARC to Lead VA Interoperability Work Under 5-Year Contract

Artemis ARC has received a five-year blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to provide health data interoperability services for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Clinical Informatics (OCI). OCI sits within the Veterans Health Administration’s Digital Health Office and advances the data, tools and informatics processes that support care for more than 9 million enrolled Veterans at more than 1,300 VA healthcare facilities.

The work covers population health, health information exchange, the Joint Longitudinal Viewer, implementation of the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act, the Veteran Interoperability Pledge, plus clinical standards and terminology. It is designed to strengthen data exchange between VA and its community and federal partners and to keep a Veteran’s complete health history within reach of every clinician involved in their care.

“Every Veteran’s healthcare story exists in pieces: a Department of Defense deployment record, a surgery at a community hospital, years of primary care at VA,” said Leigh Starr, Executive Vice President for Health Services at Artemis ARC. “When those pieces connect, a clinician gets the whole picture in minutes. That means fewer repeated tests, safer medication decisions and follow-up care that picks up right where the last provider left off. It also means Veterans no longer have the burden of carrying their own history from one appointment to the next. Those are the outcomes our team will work toward every day.”

The team goes beyond traditional technical support by putting clinicians and data specialists side by side. A board-certified clinical informatics physician leads the effort with a lead terminologist, data scientists, human factors engineers and change management specialists. Working within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) that OCI is adopting office-wide, the team plans with VA each quarter and delivers defined features in 90-day cycles.

“This award reflects the direction VA is heading and the kind of partner Artemis ARC wants to be for it,” said Luke Sturges, CEO of Artemis ARC. “Connecting health data across VA, the Department of Defense and community providers is one of the most important steps toward giving every Veteran a complete, accurate record wherever they receive care. We’re proud to bring clinical and data expertise to that work and to help OCI turn its interoperability goals into a reality.”

As Veterans increasingly move between VA and community care, accurate data exchange has become essential to safe, coordinated treatment. The agreement falls within the Integrated Healthcare Transformation 2.0 Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, under which Artemis ARC and its partners support the Veterans Health Administration across health system transformation, implementation and operations, informatics and business services. For Artemis ARC, the award deepens its role in helping VA turn modernization goals into better care for Veterans. Artemis ARC will deliver the work through its Arrow ARC joint venture.