Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

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VA Awards ASM Research A Health IT Contract Triple The Price Of Competitors’ Bids

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | November 5, 2013

The Veterans Affairs Department awarded ASM Research a $162.5 million contract to improve the user experience for VA’s electronic health record system, a price more than triple two competitive bids, Nextgov has learned. The Sept. 30 contract award is for improvements to the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, known as VistA. Read More »

VA Awards Contract For Mobile Device Management, Apps Store

Jared Serbu | Federal News Radio | October 3, 2012

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a long-awaited contract to build a system that will manage a stable of mobile devices officials hope will eventually grow to 100,000 handhelds and tablets. Read More »

VA Awards Contract to DSS for Community Living Centers

Press Release | Document Storage Systems, Inc. (DSS) | November 3, 2015

Document Storage Systems, Inc. (DSS), the leading commercial product provider of VistA-based systems, today announced its prime contract award to provide a total replacement solution for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Resident Assessment Instrument/Minimum Data Set (RAI/MDS) system. RAI/MDS is a standardized assessment and treatment planning process designed to identify the functional and health care needs of the Veteran. Clinicians and administrators that oversee residential care were historically constrained by manual treatment modalities...

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VA Awards Firstview Mobile Device Manager Task

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | October 4, 2012

The Veterans Affairs Department has awarded a $4.4 million contract for mobile device manager software to Firstview Federal Technology Solutions LLC., a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business in Rockville, Md. The contract award was anticipated to be awarded before Sept. 30, the end of federal fiscal 2012. Read More »

VA Awards Grants To Improve Health Care Access For Women Veterans

Press Release | Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | January 25, 2013

The Department of Veterans Affairs recently awarded 32 grants to VA facilities for projects that will improve emergency health care services for women Veterans, expand women’s health education programs for VA staff, and offer telehealth programs to female Veterans in rural areas. Read More »

VA Blazes Trail For Mobile Medical Technology

Joseph Conn | Modern Healthcare | January 17, 2014

One assumption made about big bureaucracies is they're Luddites, always behind the times. That's not exactly the case for the Veterans Health Administration, the healthcare arm of one of the largest federal bureaucracies, the Veterans Affairs Department. Read More »

VA Blazing Its Own Trail When It Comes To Government mHealth

Greg Slabodkin | FierceMobileHealthcare | May 13, 2013

Say what you want about the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and its bloated bureaucracy. One fact that cannot be disputed is that the VA continues to be a national leader in health IT. Read More »

VA Blue Button Adds Patient Summary Document Tool

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | January 23, 2013

The Veterans Affairs Department has added a new tool through its Blue Button feature so veterans may more easily download a summary of their essential health information. The enhancement is the VA Continuity of Care Document (VA CCD) in xml file format. Read More »

VA Buys iPads And Verizon Plans To Expand Telemental Health Pilot

Zach Rausnitz | FierceMobileGovernment | July 2, 2013

As part of its home-based telemental health program, the Veterans Affairs Department awarded a contract on June 28 to Apple and Verizon to provide 250 iPads and 300 mobile broadband plans, respectively. Read More »

VA BYOD Reimbursement Strategy Isn't IT's Call, Says Baker

Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | September 27, 2012

Who pays for data plans under a forthcoming bring-your-own-device strategy at the Veterans Affairs Department? Don't ask Chief Information Officer Roger Baker--determining that isn't his job, he says. Read More »

VA Can't 'Force Feed' DoD On VistA

Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | March 28, 2013

Since the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments called off a joint development program that was to have resulted in the core infrastructure of a single system known as the iEHR, the VA has stood by its Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, or VistA. Read More »

VA CIO Baker Responds To Decision To Scrap iEHR At Hearing

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | February 27, 2013

Before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, outgoing Chief Information Officer for VA Roger Baker provided testimony and responded to questions from committee members regarding the decision on the part of the VA and the Department of Defense (DoD) to scrap its efforts with the joint integrated EHR (iEHR). Read More »

VA CIO Clarifies Plans For iEHR

Dan Bowman | FierceEMR | February 12, 2013

In the wake of criticism following news last week that the Departments of Veterans and Defense will abandon plans to build a joint electronic health record system from the ground up, VA CIO Roger Baker is clarifying that the two departments still plan to create a joint record. Read More »

VA CIO Roger Baker Resigns - UPDATED

David Perera | FierceGovernmentIT | February 19, 2013

Baker's resignation notice comes shortly after the secretaries of the DoD and the VA announced the end of iEHR development. An insider who spoke on condition of anonymity said Baker's departure is voluntary and not directly tied to the iEHR decision, although the rolling back of a project identified closely with him was a factor. "He's exhausted," the insider said.