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IBM’S Full-Court Press To Capture DOD Health Records Contract
It’s no secret the multibillion deal to overhaul the Defense Department’s electronic health records system will be one of the most significant government contracts awarded in 2015...
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iEHR Redefined: DOD's Top 3 Tactics In VA Turf War Detente
While turf wars between the DOD and VA have effectively blunted efforts for a unified electronic health record system, both agencies are at least moving toward improving interoperability. On the DOD side, three initiatives are budgeted for continuing development — some seeing request increases, others flat, per the DOD’s overall budgeting trends...
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In U.S., Veterans Report Less Stress, Worry Than Civilians
Americans may understandably believe that the nation's veterans are suffering emotionally given news reports of high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mood or anxiety disorders among those who have served in the military. However, Gallup finds that among employed Americans, active-duty and veteran populations are more emotionally resilient than their civilian counterparts...
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Inside The Quest To Prevent Suicides Through Better Data
Something as impersonal and mundane as incomplete datasets could be exacerbating a national tragedy: the suicides of thousands of veterans and hundreds of active-duty service members every year...
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Intermountain, Cerner Collaborate On Defense Health IT Bid
Cerner Corp., one of several major electronic health-record system vendors competing for a multibillion-dollar contract to replace the Military Health System's EHR, has entered what it terms a “strategic agreement” on its bid with Intermountain Healthcare...
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IntraCare North Hospital Goes Live on OpenVista Electronic Health Record
Houston psychiatric hospital uses proven open source EHR to realize affordable, economically sustainable, patient care improvements
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IT Entrepreneurs Rush Into Healthcare, But Will Human Touch Be Missing?
A new health IT firm called Omada Health, which recently secured $23 million in startup financing, is working with people at risk of developing diabetes to help them head off the full-blown condition...
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Leidos Team Touts Interoperability In Military EHR Bid
Time is running out for vendors to submit bids on the planned $11 billion, 10-year contract to deliver an electronic health records system to the Defense Department. The DOD Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM -- pronounced "dim sum") is an ambitious plan to transform the delivery of care to the 9.6 million active-duty service members, their dependents, retirees and others...
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LiveData Congratulates Miami VA Healthcare System Upon Winning Health Data Management’s Top Honor For Patient Safety Project Of The Year
LiveData today congratulated the Miami VA Healthcare System for receiving Health Data Management’s top Award for Patient Safety Project of the Year. The award recognizes the impact that OR-Dashboard with Active Time Out, LiveData’s operational intelligence and patient safety solution, has had during its first year in use at the Bruce W. Carter VA Medical Center in Miami...
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Major Players Bid For Slice Of Federal Health Records Pie
Four teams of contractors so far have indicated they want in on the DoD's massive electronic health records program. While each of the teams presents formidable resources in healthcare IT, to some degree no group has a complete, ready-to-go, solution, said IDC's Scott Lundstrom...
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Marina Martin: Building A New Digital Service At VA
As chief technology officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs for the past year and a half, Marina Martin has been streamlining VA's disparate online customer relationships into a service that is focused on veterans...
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Medsphere Systems Merges with MBS/Net
Medsphere Systems Corporation and MBS/Net, Inc., today announced the merger of the two companies, effectively adding MBS/Net’s ambulatory physician practice-oriented services and proprietary applications to Medsphere’s existing focus on affordable healthcare IT solutions and services for acute and inpatient behavioral health settings. Moving forward, MBS/Net will retain its name and operate as a division of Medsphere; the expanded company will now offer a broader menu of healthcare information technology (IT) solutions and services for integrated delivery networks and standalone physician practices...
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Meet Chuck Hagel, early proponent of electronic health records
Back in 1982, when few organizations used electronic health records, Chuck Hagel, at the time deputy director of the Veterans Affairs Administration, played a key role in developing what became the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture -- the department’s electronic health record. Read More »
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Military Suicides Decline, But Continued Failures Hold Lessons For Future Wars
...All across the country there are families like Wayne Telford’s. The year his daughter died was one of the worst for suicides in military the since the Pentagon started closely tracking the data in 2002...
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New DOD-VA Health Records System Coming To More Facilities Soon
The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have installed a software viewer that allows clinicians to jointly access health record systems at seven VA facilities and two Defense facilities — and this meets the definition of a “full deployment” set by the secretaries of the two departments, a Pentagon spokeswoman said...
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