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Fixing The VA-DOD Health System Fiasco
As health care plans nationwide enter the home stretch of implementing electronic records under the framework of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, and military service disability claims backlogs grow in size and attention, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Pentagon need a much more coherent approach to modernize and deploy their electronic health record systems. Read More »
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Furloughed VA Closes Benefits Offices, Stops Health IT Work
Almost 3000 IT workers and 7000 Veterans Benefits Association employees have been forced to halt work on the enormous backlog of disability claims due to the government shutdown, NextGov reports. [...] Read More »
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Gov 2.0 vs. The Beast Of Bureaucracy
If Tim O’Reilly didn’t exist, the technology industry would have to invent him. He knows everybody, can explain anything to anyone, helps us understand where things are headed, and convenes diverse groups of people to think about talk about the big topics. Read More »
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Hagel Promises Plan In 30 Days For DOD-VA Health Records Sharing
Faced with tough questions from legislators, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday said he would decide on a plan within 30 days to work through the tangled process to seamlessly share medical records between the Department of Defense and the VA. Read More »
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Hagel Urged To Move On ‘Game-Changer’ Agreement
A House panel is calling on Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to follow through on a recent plan to improve disability benefits claims processing for transitioning service members and veterans. Read More »
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If Shutdown Persists, VA Will Cut Off Claims Payments To Vets On Nov. 1
If the government shutdown persists until late October, the Veterans Affairs Department will cut off disability, pension, compensation and education claims to 5.18 million veterans, surviving spouses and children on Nov. 1, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki told a hearing of the House VA Committee Wednesday. Read More »
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Jon Stewart On The VA’s Hand-Cranked Disability Claims File System
Last night, in his second “Daily Show” episode focused on the Veterans Affairs Department, comedian Jon Stewart illustrated the disability claims backlog -- which stands at 885,068 this week -- with a look at the Veterans Benefits Administration office in Winston-Salem, N.C., where mountains of paper files threaten the structural integrity of the building and the safety of employees. Read More »
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Key Lawmaker Wants To Ban VA Bonuses For Five Years
The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee proposed legislation that would ban all bonuses for senior executives in the Veterans Affairs Department for the next five years. The move by Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., is in response to VA’s disability claims backlog and patient deaths in VA hospitals. Read More »
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Lawmaker Wants To Cut Backlog On Veterans' Claims
The Florida Republican who chairs the House Veterans Affairs Committee wants to speed up the time it takes to process veterans' disability claims. Read More »
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Lawmakers Pessimistic On VA-DoD E-Records Plan
Mike Viterna, president of the National Organization of Veterans’ Advocates, said in an interview that the importance of improving the military health records system can’t be overemphasized. “These inefficiencies delay necessary care and compromise that care,” Viterna said. “People need their records for disability claims. They’re being underserved.”... Read More »
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Lawmakers Push Hagel On DoD-VA Interoperability
Lawmakers on the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees are pressuring Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel for clarification on the agency’s plans for speeding up information sharing and updating its electronic health record system. Read More »
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Lawmakers Urge VA To Keep Better Records
Lawmakers are pressing for digitization of military records, and better file sharing among agencies responsible for them, following media reports of missing or inaccurate unit records and the temporary disappearance of 250 files from the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. Read More »
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Lost To History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims By Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans
The loss of field records — after-action write-ups, intelligence reports and other day-to-day accounts from the war zones — has far-reaching implications. It has complicated efforts by soldiers like DeLara to claim benefits. And it makes it harder for military strategists to learn the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan, two of the nation's most protracted wars.
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N.Y. Senator Pushes For Interoperable EHR For Veterans
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) is pushing legislation that would force the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to create an interoperable electronic health record (EHR) system for service members. Read More »
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Navy To VA: We Printed Out Health Records And Mailed Them
Decades after the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs Department developed separate electronic health records for military personnel and veterans, here’s how the Navy transfers potentially millions of pages of sailors’ and Marines’ medical files to VA: It prints them out on paper and mails them via the U.S. Postal Service, Nextgov has learned. Read More »
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