MHS Conference 2012 Lets TeAM Spread Message of Efficiency, Innovation, Solutions

TeAM put on a show to start the new year.

Literally.

TeAM staff spent the week at the 2012 Military Health System (MHS) Conference in National Harbor, Md., touting both Technology, Automation and Management as well as the latest initiatives from the Military Health System Cyberinfrastructure Services (MCiS), which TeAM proudly provides comprehensive program management support.

TeAM's Danielle Cunningham and Staci Ray-Turner (pictured, above), and Jennifer Newton promoted TeAM's government solutions message during exhibit hours Tuesday, January 31 and Wednesday, February 1, giving TeAM the opportunity to put a handshake and a smile behind its pitch of efficiency and innovation.

Meanwhile, TeAM CEO Charles G. Davis and Vice President of Operations April Noble spent the week explaining how TeAM's 26-year history and agile small-business based management makes the company an ideal ally for the MHS, which requires the ability to manage broad projects yet be able to respond nimbly to rapidly changing environments.

"We offer best-in-class service, with a focus on solutions and innovations," Davis said. "The MHS Conference afforded us an opportunity to express that message directly to the whole host of the Military Health System."

Davis stressed that TeAM's core strengths -- innovation, efficiency and solution-oriented, rather than maintenance-oriented, thinking -- are now more valuable than ever. TeAM's ability to do more with less, honed over more than a quarter of a century as a contractor with the Department of Defense, found a cozy home in the central theme of the four day event, "From health care to health."

"For the Military Health System, in these challenging budget times, nothing is more important than finding solutions and increasing efficiency," he said. "That is the center of TeAM's philosophy and always has been. Our military members and their beneficiaries deserve superior service, despite budget belt-tightening, and TeAM is proud to be a powerful tool to solve any challenge."

TeAM's program management support staff gave voice to MCiS's latest and most important initiatives.

TeAM's Garrett Brown, Kathryn Daly, and Virginia White, along with TeAM partner Acentia's Jim Seybold, helped explain MCiS' initiatives to contractors, clinicians, and MHS stakeholders. The group placed particular emphasis on the modeling and simulation initiative, the Application Virtualization and Hosting Environment (AVHE), and the MHS Development and Testing Center (DTC).

MCiS' modeling and simulation initiative is designed to anticipate, test and validate transformative technologies with a rigorous scientific methodology to ensure that changes to the MHS cyberinfrastructure will perform as expected.

The AVHE delivers MHS centrally managed applications through a virtual environmentt, improving enterprise management capabilities, speeding deployment of new applications and ensuring a standard user experience across the MHS.

The DTC ensures that applications function as anticipated in the DoD and VA environments and any customization fits the needs of health care providers and other end users.

"The conference was an invaluable opportunity for MCiS to reach a large number of its most important stakeholders," TeAM's White, the group's communications lead said.  "Being able to showcase projects and initiatives in person and answer customers' questions helps MCiS emerge from the background of military health care and garner a bit of the spotlight. This kind of visibility is essential in today's environment of shrinking budgets and efficiencies."

Now, after a flurry of business cards and more handshakes than a presidential primary race, the conference is over, but for TeAM and its more than two-decades-long support of MHS, our service members and their beneficiaries, the show goes on.

About TeAM, Inc.

Founded in 1985, TeAM is an ISO 9001:2008 certified Veteran-Owned Small Disadvantaged Business (VOSDB).  TeAM, a professional services company, maintains a long and productive relationship with the Department of Defense and numerous federal agencies. Located in Falls Church, Va., and San Antonio, TX, TeAM is organized to be accessible and responsive to clients' needs, matching superior service with the latest industry methodologies and technologies. Coupling decades of expertise and experience with a firm commitment to client needs, TeAM offers an unparalleled combination of small-business agility with big-business expertise.