Los Angeles veterans are now able to access a new patient-centered healthcare service. On January 19, 2011, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it was creating a new office, which to develop personal, patient-centered models of care for Veterans who receive healthcare services at the VA’s more than 1,000 points of care across the U.S. Read More »

The Department of Veterans Affairs is now offering a new streamlined healthcare delivery system to our veterans called Patient Aligned Care Teams.

So what does this mean? This means that the VA is working on bringing primary healthcare to veterans to the next level. What they are doing is aligning all of the healthcare pieces together; to make the healthcare delivery system more manageable, cohesive, and highly functional by using teams called Patient Aligned Care Team or PACT. Read More »

Despite his heavy schedule, [Renford] Patch still found the time to exercise his computer programming skills and last year developed a hearing test calculator to automate the steps for determining compensation owed for varying degrees of hearing loss. Mike Walcoff, VA's acting undersecretary for benefits, told a media roundtable that the hearing loss calculator Patch developed works so well that VBA has rolled it out for use system-wide. Read More »

The Veterans Affairs Department asked industry, government agencies and academic researchers last week for insights on using open source software as a key component of a modernized electronic heath record system, a move that could have serious implications for the Obama administration's initiative for adoption of digital medical files nationwide. Read More »

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is creating a new office to develop personal, patient-centered models of care for Veterans who receive health care services at VA’s more than 1,000 points of care across the Nation.

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In his prepared testimony, Baker said he wanted to create an open source model for VISTA, "bringing back the innovation that made VISTA the best electronic health record system in the country." In August, VA said it was evaluating an open source model that a technology industry advisory groupproposed in May. Read More »

The Department of Veterans Affairs is prioritizing efforts to develop an open-source method to modernize its VistA electronic health record system, VA CIO Roger Baker said during a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, Government Health IT reports (Mosquera, Government Health IT, 10/6).

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