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VA Health Care Facilities Named To 2013 “Most Wired” Hospitals List
The Department of Veterans Affairs, representing 152 VA medical centers, was recently named to the 2013 “Most Wired” hospitals list. Read More »
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VA Introduces New and Enhanced Features for VA Blue Button
Additional Features to Increase Veterans’ Access to their Personal Health Information Read More »
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VA IT Budget to Get a Boost in House Spending Bill
While many federal agencies anticipate budget cuts this year, the Veterans Affairs Department’s information technology budget would get a 6.5 percent raise if a proposal from a key House committee prevails.
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VA Looks To Apply Innovation To Better Care And Service For Veterans
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs launched a new innovation center to solve big problems. Read More »
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VA Marks The 10-Year Anniversary Of My HealtheVet
In recognition of the 10th anniversary of its award-winning Personal Health Record, My HealtheVet (www.myhealth.va.gov), the Department of Veterans Affairs is urging all Veterans and Servicemembers to join the millions already accessing VA health care information and services online. [...] Read More »
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VA Named To The 2013 “Most Wired” Hospitals List
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been named to the 2013 ‘Most Wired’ hospitals list — an event that marks the first time that all VA medical centers nationwide have achieved the honor. Read More »
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VA Officials Chart Expanded Vision For Blue Button
What began as a simple way to help veterans view their personal health information over the Internet is continuing to snowball into an electronic health record phenomena known as the Blue Button, now used by more than a million patients nationally and gaining wider adoption by certain health care providers. Read More »
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VA Plans To Launch Health App Store
The Veterans Affairs Department has set plans to kick off the first two of several mHealth apps designed to give vets easier and quicker access to healthcare data...
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VA Recognizes 10 Years Of My HealtheVet Use, Success
To celebrate ten years of success with My HealtheVet, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is encouraging both veterans and servicemembers to utilize the personal health record (PHR) system. The system has a variety of benefits for users, including VA Blue Button, VA prescription refills, and secure provider messaging. Read More »
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VA To Add VLER Exchange Communities In 2013
The Veterans Affairs Department will add over the next year to the 13 regions of the country where VA and Defense Department medical facilities share information with providers in the private sector as part of the virtual lifetime electronic record program (VLER). Read More »
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VA To Launch Several Health Apps After Year-Long Pilot Program
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to launch several new mobile apps this fall, according to a report from Federal News Radio...
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VA Working On Video Health Apps
The Veterans Affairs Department has rolled out a suite of apps for clinicians and patients that pull information from the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture electronic health record. [...] Read More »
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VA's Blue Button Now At 1 Million Users, Aims At 100 Million Soon
Two years ago, the Department of Veterans Affairs' Blue Button project started with the idea that VA could improve veterans' health outcomes by giving them something they'd been clamoring for: easy access to their own health records that had theretofore been locked up in VA's data systems and visible only to health care providers. Read More »
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VA's Peter Levin Pursues 'Art of the Possible' in IT Innovation
As chief technology officer of the Veterans Affairs Department, Dr. Peter Levin isn't tasked with making sure that routers are maintained or seeing that the network stays up. Far from it. Read More »
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VA: More Education Needed On Blue Button Initiative
Only one-third of veterans are taking advantage of "Blue Button" capabilities to access the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' personal health record portal, My HealtheVet, but those who do so are pleased with it, according to a study published recently in the Journal of the American Informatics Association. The Blue Button initiative enables patients to secure online access to their electronic records.
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