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"Another Walter Reed-Type Scandal"

Niko Karvounis | Mother Jones | September 14, 2008

Soldiers at the military hospital languished in part due to incompatible databases and dismal record keeping. Welcome to the Pentagon's $20 billion medical-records boondoggle. Read More »

Audit: DOD E-Health Timeline 'Not Realistic'

Billy Mitchell | Fed Scoop | June 1, 2016

The Pentagon inspector general doesn't think the DOD can reach initial operational capability of its new $9 billion, "state-of-the-art" electronic health records system by December. The Defense Department's goal of having a pilot of its modernized electronic health record platform running by the year's end "may not be realistic," its inspector general said Wednesday...

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11-Month Defense Health Record Contract Awarded to Leidos

Bob Brewin | Nextgov.com | May 2, 2014

The Defense Health Agency has awarded Leidos -- formerly Science Applications International Corp, or SAIC -- a sole source, $70.7 million bridge contract to support military electronic health record systems over the next 11 months.  

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Auditors Fault Pentagon Sorting of Biggest Bioweapon Threats

Diane Barnes | Nextgov.com | May 19, 2014

Auditors say the Defense Department is not following its own procedures for guarding against "potentially catastrophic" biological strikes...

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China Isn’t Wrong To Call The U.S. "The Real Hacking Empire"

Lily Kuo | Nextgov | May 9, 2013

The cyberwar between China and the US has spread from computers into the halls of diplomacy. In a report this week, the Pentagon said for the first time that the Chinese government and military have been launching cyber attacks against the US. Today, Chinese state media called the US “the real hacking empire” and said the country has “an extensive espionage network.” Read More »

DARPA Plans Deep Brain Dive To Understand PTSD, TBI

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | November 4, 2013

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a program that aims to use shared, multi-disciplinary brain research data and analysis tools to -- among other things -- develop quantitative characterizations of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. Read More »

Defense Companies Target Health Care

Marjorie Censer | The Washington Post: Capital Business | September 4, 2011

Traditional defense contractors are increasingly muscling into the health care services field, hoping that the burgeoning area can help them weather reductions in Pentagon equipment buying. Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin and Falls Church-based General Dynamics, both of which already had health care practices in place, have ramped up their businesses in recent weeks with new acquisitions. Read More »

Defense Contractors Vastly Outnumber Troops In Afghanistan

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | May 30, 2013

For every U.S. service member serving in Afghanistan, there are 1.6 Defense contractors on the ground (and on the payroll) in supporting roles. Contractors make up 62 percent of the force there -- 108,000 versus 65,700 troops, watchdog agency reports reveal. Read More »

Defense Failed To Adequately Manage Terabytes Of Iraq War Data

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | December 20, 2012

Records for U.S. forces in Iraq as of 2010 amounted to 20 to 50 terabytes of data -- as much as five times all the books cataloged by the Library of Congress -- with the information stored in an unmanaged, unstructured format with no metadata, according to an internal Pentagon report that the Defense Department Freedom of Information Act Office released Dec. 4. Read More »

Defense Health Agency Focusing On IT For Savings, Efficiencies

Amber Corrin | FCW | January 13, 2014

One of the Defense Department's newest components is at the center of one of the Pentagon's biggest IT program overhauls, but the Defense Health Agency is also looking beyond an update of electronic health records to other ways technology can empower change amid budget cuts. Read More »

Defense Still Mulling Next Steps On Electronic Health Record

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | June 4, 2013

Last Wednesday I asked the Pentagon and the Defense/Veterans Affairs Interagency Program Office charged with integrated electronic health record development when they plan to start the contracting process for commercial systems announced by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on May 21, and who would run them. Read More »

Defense-VA Medical Records Scanning System Not Ready For Prime Time

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | April 18, 2013

The Defense Department plans to deploy by Dec. 31 a bulk scanning system to turn paper medical records into electronic files for transfer to the Veterans Affairs Department, but the system remains “far from ready for prime time,” knowledgeable sources told Nextgov. Read More »

Doctors And Nurses Complicit In CIA Torture, Alleges Report By Institute Of Medicine And Open Society Foundations

Staff Writer | The Telegraph | November 4, 2013

DOCTOR and nurses tasked with monitoring the health of terror suspects were complicit in abuses committed at prisons run by the Pentagon and the CIA, an independent report has alleged. Read More »

DoD Awards Contract For Vendor Neutral Patient Image Archive

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | November 16, 2012

The Department of Defense is contracting with the Bloomington, Minnesota-based software and data management firm Acuo Technologies to manage a vendor-neutral patient image archive, in a deal worth $40 million over nine years. Read More »

DoD Chooses Interoperability Over Integration For New E-Health Record System

Jared Serbu | Federal News Radio | May 23, 2013

The Defense Department still is a long way from picking a successor to its aging electronic health record system. But the Pentagon said Wednesday that whatever it settles on, it's committed to open data standards, and proprietary solutions are off limits. Read More »