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).

SBC 2014 Recap

A few of us from AEGIS attended the 2014 Small Business Conference (SBC) last week hosted by ACT-IAC. This was our sixth year attending and, if I recall correctly, our third year as a proud Platinum Sponsor. The media covering the conference have written about a theme of how contract consolidation, also known as contract bundling, […]

ACT-IAC Small Business Conference

AEGIS is proud to once again sponsor the ACT-IAC Small Business Conference at the Platinum level. The event takes place April 24 at the Washington Hilton in DC. The theme of the 2014 conference is “Connect, Collaborate and Commit.” Those are three activities that small businesses try to execute every day. We Connect with government […]

Come Interoperate with AEGIS at HIMSS14 Orlando Next Week

It’s time for HIMSS14 and AEGIS is ready to ‘Go Big!’ We’re hosting our largest ever booth, #8545 just outside the Interoperability Showcase. I’d like to personally invite you to stop by and say Hi, catch a demo of the Developers Integration Lab (DIL), learn about the new Conformance Testing Program we’re launching with HL7 […]

IHE North American Conference

AEGIS will actively participate in the 2014 IHE North American Conference in Chicago, IL January 27 – 31. We will be directly involved in the Connectathon testing leveraging the AEGIS Developers Integration Lab (DIL). AEGIS staff will be testing its IHE profiles against other participants at the Connectathon. Systems that support IHE Integration Profiles work […]

HL7 January 2014 Working Group Meeting

AEGIS will attend and participate in the Health Level Seven (HL7) Working Group Meeting in San Antonio, TX from January 18-25. At the event, we will be involved in the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Standards (FHIR®) Connectathon as well as several working group sessions including CDC Immunization, Security, and others. Mario Hyland, Senior Vice President at […]

4 and 5

Recently while I was speaking with a group about one of AEGIS’ core services, Independent Verification Validation (IV&V), there was an exclamation from someone in the room: “Oh! I was wondering what ‘4 & 5’ was….” Unfortunately, the discipline of IV&V remains an obscure art, especially outside of the federal government. But even within government, […]

IV&V: Justify Thy Existence!

One challenge we frequently hear hurled at the practitioners and champions of independent verification and validation (IV&V) and quality assurance (QA) is, “How can you justify the cost?” Or sometimes, “How much did you actually save the program?” In other words, “Prove your value!” That’s a difficult request. The idea of IV&V and QA is […]

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