Veterans Affairs

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Tuscaloosa VA to Take Part in One of Largest Gene Studies

Lydia Seabol Avant | Tuscaloosa News | November 6, 2011

The Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been chosen to participate in one of the largest studies to focus on how genes play into a person’s general health. Over the next four years, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hopes to get blood samples from 1 million American veterans, which will be coded and stored in what will be the largest secure bio-repository in the U.S. Read More »

Unopened iPad Stolen from VA as Program Launches

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | October 31, 2011

As soon as the Department of Veterans Affairs launched its program to allow Apple iPad tablets to be used on the job, an unopened one was stolen from an agency office in Washington, according to a VA senior official. But that will not deter the VA’s plans to integrate mobile devices into healthcare delivery. Read More »

VA CIO Forecasts In-House Mobile Apps Store

Bob Brewin | NextGov | September 28, 2011

Veterans Affairs Department Chief Information Officer Roger Baker envisions development of an in-house application store for mobile computing, he said Wednesday at a press briefing, where he also announced that VA is on course to open up its network to smartphones and tablet computers by Monday. Read More »

VA CIO Roger Baker Takes Up Tweeting

Bob Brewin | NextGov | November 1, 2011

Roger Baker, the Veterans Affairs Department Chief Information Officer, sent out his first Tweet yesterday, which said, "VA Social media Group wants me to start tweeting. Should be entertaining." Read More »

VA CIO Says CIO Should Have More IT Budget Authority

Katelyn Noland | ExecutiveGov | October 25, 2011

In a time where budgets are flat or declining, Roger Baker, the chief information officer at the Veterans Affairs Department, says giving the agency chief information officers more say in financial decisions could be a way to create savings for the federal technology enterprise. Read More »

VA CIO Trades in Laptop for iPad

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | September 2, 2011

Roger Baker, CIO of the Veterans Affairs Department, has traded in his laptop and is testing the iPad with up to about 200 other VA employees, mostly physicians at its medical facilities. VA will permit employees on Oct. 1 to use Apple’s iPhone and iPad to connect to the department’s network in the course of their jobs. Read More »

VA Employees to Test Mobile Access to Information Networks Via Tablets, Smartphones

Wyatt Kash | AOL Government | September 29, 2011

The Veterans Affairs Department is expected to launch a test program next week that would permit as many as 1,000 VA employees to use mobile smartphone and tablet devices to access the VA's information network, according to comments made by VA's Roger Baker, reported by Federal News Radio. Read More »

VA Gears Up for Buy of Up to 100,000 Tablet Computers

Alice Lipowicz | Federal Computer Week | October 24, 2011

In one of the largest moves to mobile devices by a civilian agency, the Veterans Affairs Department plans to procure up to 100,000 tablet computers, the agency recently announced. Read More »

VA Gives the Go Ahead to its 'Ruthless' IT Reduction Plans

Jason Miller | Federal News Radio | October 19, 2011

Don't be surprised to see Roger Baker and Stephen Warren walk around the Veterans Affairs Department in the coming months and personally remove printers from desks. Read More »

VA Launches Its Open Source EHR Custodian

Marla Durben Hirsch | Fierce EMR | September 8, 2011

The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), on a joint path with the Department of Defense, has gone live with its open source electronic health record agent (OSEHRA) to create a single EHR for veterans and service members. Read More »

VA open source custodial agent opens doors

David Perera | Fierce Government IT | August 31, 2011

The Veterans Affairs Department officially launched Aug. Read More »

VA Open Source Health Software Site is Open for Business

Bob Brewin | NextGov | August 30, 2011

The Veterans Affairs Department open source electronic health record software website went live today with a pitch that it will serve as the nexus for an "open source community designed to unleash innovation in electronic health record software." Read More »

VA Patients Ready to Share E-Records, Says Study

Catherine Zaw | Stanford Daily | January 9, 2012

A School of Medicine study found that 80 percent of surveyed Veterans Affairs (VA) patients are interested in sharing their health records electronically with family members, caregivers and outside providers in order to improve their care. Read More »

VA Plans Government's Largest Tablet Computer Deployment

Bob Brewin and Joseph Marks | NextGov | October 24, 2011

The Veterans Affairs Department plans to field up to 100,000 tablet computers, the largest such deployment in the government, VA disclosed last week in a request to industry for technical help. The department has developed a work around for federal wireless security standards that supports the devices' management in a vendor-operated cloud computing environment, according to the request. Read More »

VA Tests Nationwide Health Information Exchange

Ken Terry | Information Week | September 23, 2011

The VA has joined forces with military and private-sector healthcare providers in a pilot project that tests the value of using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) to share data among providers that care for veterans and active military personnel. Read More »