Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company headquartered in Bethesda, Md., has launched a new healthcare technology alliance.
Founding members of the Lockheed Martin Healthcare Technology Alliance include Cisco, Cloudera, Illumina, Intel and Montgomery College. The alliance aims to bring together expertise from health IT providers, medical technology companies and academic institutions.
"Federal health IT is a dynamic and growing sector," said Horace Blackman, vice president of health and life sciences at Lockheed Martin. "Through collaboration between health IT industry and academic partners, this team will develop and refine technologies that will help guide decisions for care, diagnosis and treatment of disease while protecting critical health information."