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VA And Defense Drop Vendor-Specific Database Requirement For Joint Pharmacy System

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | August 20, 2012

The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have dropped a mandate that any vendor planning to bid on the pharmacy system for the integrated electronic health record use a drug database supplied by First Databank, a San Francisco-based subsidiary of media conglomerate Hearst Corp. Nextgov first reported the requirement on June 5.

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VA, DoD Set to Add Pharmacy Component to EHR System

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | June 6, 2012

The Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense are ready to add the pharmacy component to their integrated EHR (iEHR) system, according to a request for information recently posted by the iEHR Integrated Program Office. Read More »

Vendor Tapped without Competition for Key Parts of Defense-VA Pharmacy System

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | June 5, 2012

Buried deep in an ostensibly competitive new procurement for the pharmacy information system to serve the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments’ integrated electronic health record is the fact that VA already has selected a vendor to provide key components of what will become the largest pharmacy management system in the world.

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