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Unhappy Lawmakers Take Aim At VA, DoD Plans To Nix Joint EHR
After the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense announced plans to scale back costs by scrapping plans to create an entirely new EHR system shared between the two organizations, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed disappointment and frustration... Read More »
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United Kingdom Eyes VA’s Electronic Health Record
The Veterans Affairs Department and the United Kingdom’s National Health Service have teamed up to share ideas, strategies and leadership for development of health information technology, opening the possibility that the NHS could use VA’s electronic health record system. Peter Levin, the former VA Chief Technology Officer who retired this month, told Nextgov the Pentagon also should adopt VA electronic health record. Read More »
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Unraveling Bureaucracy At The VA, One IT Project At A Time
How a small, fast SWAT team is improving performance at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read More »
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US military veterans face inadequate care after returning from war – report
Study for Congress has 'serious misgivings' about government's treatment of US troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan us military veterans Read More »
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V.A. Helps Millions Of Veterans
Did you know that a V.A. patient receives prescriptions and services that are either free or have a small co-pay ($15 or $50, $8 or $9 for 30-day prescriptions)? Some examples include x-rays, blood work, EKGs, flu shot or other shots, readjustment counseling, hospice care, every type of prosthetic, eyeglasses and hearing aids if needed, and many others including every major type of operation.
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VA & SAMHSA test Exchange of Tagged Substance Abuse Data
The Veterans Affairs Department and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration have demonstrated how to securely share sensitive health information while following confidentiality laws and patient disclosure wishes among providers using certified electronic health records (EHRs). Read More »
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VA Abruptly Cancels Key Software Contract for Joint Health Record
Yesterday, the Veterans Affairs Department abruptly terminated a $102.6 million contract awarded to ASM Research in January to develop software vital to an integrated electronic health record system that will serve both VA and the Defense Department. Read More »
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VA And Defense Dept. Began Paying For New Records System While Still Funding Abandoned One
Members of Congress have been demanding for years that the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) work together so the records of military personnel could be seamlessly shared between the two agencies, and that veterans could avoid paperwork problems that delay receiving health and disability benefits... Read More »
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VA And Defense Drop Vendor-Specific Database Requirement For Joint Pharmacy System
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 And DoD Hint At iEHR Mobile?
Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs have announced that they will begin working on a mobile app that will integrate data from the electronic health records of both departments and combine them into a single mobile platform for clinicians. Read More »
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VA and VistA: Can They Be Fixed?
The Department of Veterans Affairs is rushing to make changes to its IT infrastructure and systems before the next administration enters the White House. And skeptical lawmakers, oversight bodies and outside experts are cautiously optimistic about the eventual outcomes. The key words, though, are "cautiously" and "eventual"...
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VA Announces Five Chiropractic Residency Sites
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has named the five VA medical facilities and affiliated chiropractic colleges that will participate in VA's chiropractic residency program. They are: Read More »
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VA Appoints Entrepreneur As New Chief Technology Officer
The Federal Savings Bank, an institution specialized in veteran loans, echoes news of the positive efforts made by the Department of Veteran Affairs to reduce the disability claims backlog. Read More »
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VA Asks DoD To Adopt Vista
For decades, the Department of Defense has struggled to build an EMR, but 20 years and $10 billion later, still hasn’t pulled together a satisfactory system. The DoD’s system, AHLTA, has seen project failure after project failure and still isn’t doing what it’s supposed to do efficiently. Now — at long last — DoD is looking at different options. Read More »
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VA awards $4.5M contract to regroup VistA code into modules
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $4.5 million contract to Ray Group International LLC, to refactor or reorganize the legacy code of VA’s VistA electronic health record system into modular components. The contract supports VA’s Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) community to modernize VistA for open source and to contribute to the VA-Department of Defense integrated electronic health record (iEHR).
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