Veterans Affairs

Payments from medical device makers to orthopedic surgeons dropped between 2007 and 2010 after payment disclosure became a requirement - there was a reduction in both the total amount paid and the number of individual payments, researchers from The University of Iowa and Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical System reported in Archives of Internal Medicine - part of a Health Care Reform series the Read More »

Doug Felton is the manager of enterprise architecture for the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs – a role that gives him insight into inter-organizational space, otherwise known as IOS. At the GHIT 2011 show on June 14-15 in Washington D.C., Felton will lead a session in which he'll share some insights about common governance between the two agencies, mediating engineering process Read More »

Health information technology pioneer Tom Munnecke has been thinking a lot these days about a plan by the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department to update the department's VistA electronic health-record system. Read More »

Dr. Vinod Sahney thinks the health care industry can learn a lot from airplane pilots. “People forget things, but every pilot knows that before you take off, you go through a checklist regardless of how many years you have been flying,” said Sahney, a newly appointed professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in the College of Engineering. Read More »

HEALTHeLINK, Western New York's regional health information organization (RHIO), and a designated Beacon Community for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, is testing out telemedicine for diabetic management in an initiative that could become "a model for the nation," Beacon project director Todd Norris told Healthcare IT News. Read More »

While the Obama Administration's electronic health records program offers incentives for doctors and hospitals using e-records, change is slow. Only 17 percent of the nation uses electronic records, Weiner said, comparing this statistic with the Defense's 100 percent use of electronic records. The health IT space, however, is at an exciting tipping point, he said. Read More »