Using health data to understand disease and wellness as well as the best treatment and prevention options forpatients, is critical for improving care. That’s why VA is partnering with the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives to use “big data” to advance favorable outcomes in patient care. “Big data” in health care is a term used to describe complex and very large data sets that have evolved since the inception of electronic health records.
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VA to Test Brain-injury Telemedicine Program
Andis Robeznieks | ModernHealthcare.com | June 28, 2012
The U.S. Veterans Affairs Department will be launching a five-hospital pilot program to study how using telemedicine can improve care for military veterans with concussions or mild traumatic brain injury. Read More »
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VA Undercounted Afghanistan And Iraq War Veteran PTSD Cases
Bob Brewin | Nextgov | December 26, 2012
The Veterans Affairs Department has undercounted the number of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans seeking care over the past decade for post-traumatic stress disorder by 10,299 cases or roughly 4 percent, the VA acknowledged in a revised June 2012 report. Read More »
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VA Uses Technology to Provide Rural Veterans Greater Access to Specialty Care Services
Press Release |
VA |
July 10, 2012
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has implemented a new initiative, Specialty Care Access Network-Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (SCAN-ECHO), to increase access to specialty care services for Veterans in rural and medically under-served areas through the use of videoconferencing equipment. Read More »
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VA using big data to improve health care delivery
Press Release |
US Department of Veterans Affairs |
March 24, 2016
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VA Wait Times As Good or Better Than Private Sector: Report
Richard Sisk | Military.com | September 20, 2017
VA health care is as good or in some cases better than that offered by the private sector on key measures including wait times, according to a study commissioned by the American Legion. The report, issued Tuesday and titled "A System Worth Saving," concludes that the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system "continues to perform as well as, and often better than, the rest of the U.S. health-care system on key quality measures," including patient safety, satisfaction and care coordination...
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VA Wants Advanced Clinical Decision Support for iEHR
Mary Mosquera | GovernmentHealthIT | July 3, 2012
The Veterans Affairs Department wants industry help to describe standard technical specifications for services that are needed for clinical decision support that could be incorporated in its integrated electronic health record (iEHR) with the Defense Department. Read More »
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VA Wants Application To View VistA Images On Mobile Devices
Mike Bassett | FierceMedicalImaging | November 18, 2012
The Department of Veterans Affairs wants to develop an application that will allow clinical images stored on its Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture electronic health record to be viewed on mobile devices. Read More »
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VA Will Get Wi-Fi Upgrade at All Med Facilities
Sara Jackson | FierceMobileHealthcare | June 7, 2012
The Department of Veterans Affairs just took another big step in its mobile journey. In what is being called one of the "world's largest wireless mobility infrastructure," the VA is upgrading the Wi-Fi networks at all 26 of its medical facilities nationwide. Read More »
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VA Will Use $983K Grant To Expand Telehealth To Vets
Gienna Shaw | FierceHealthIT | September 14, 2012
The Department of Veterans Affairs continues its efforts to expand access to care for veterans using technology--including telehealth--this time through a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Read More »
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VA Working On Video Health Apps
Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceMobileHealthcare | October 2, 2013
The Veterans Affairs Department has rolled out a suite of apps for clinicians and patients that pull information from the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture electronic health record. [...] Read More »
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VA's Blue Button Now At 1 Million Users, Aims At 100 Million Soon
Jared Serbu | Federal News Radio | September 12, 2012
Two years ago, the Department of Veterans Affairs' Blue Button project started with the idea that VA could improve veterans' health outcomes by giving them something they'd been clamoring for: easy access to their own health records that had theretofore been locked up in VA's data systems and visible only to health care providers. Read More »
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VA's IT chief announces plans to resign
Joe Conn | Modern Healthcare | February 19, 2013
Sad to see Baker go is Dr. Nancy Anthracite, president of WorldVistA, a not-for-profit organization promoting the use of an open-source version of VistA, which predates and operates independent of OSEHRA...Baker “understood the potential for huge benefit from a two-way exchange of code and open communication with the open-source community. We were astounded when he was successful in bring OSEHRA to life...
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VA's Warren Given CIO Title As House Ramps Up Cyber Investigation
Jason Miller | Federal News Radio | October 30, 2013
The Veterans Affairs Department is splitting up its chief information officer's position for at least the short term. Read More »
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VA, Defense ditch plans for common EHR
Joe Conn | Modern Healthcare | February 6, 2013
The long march to interoperability between the electronic health-records systems of the Veterans Affairs Department and the Department of Defense passed yet another milestone Tuesday as the secretaries of both announced they were scrapping a 5-year-old plan to achieve exchange capabilities by creating a single, common EHR for both healthcare systems.
VA, DoD Climb The Stairs To Interoperability Together
Michael O'Connell | Federal News Radio | November 14, 2013
Leaders in the healthcare community are thinking of ways they can use data to improve the quality of health care. The departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense have joined forces to create VistA Evolution, a system that allows the exchange of electronic health records information between the two. Read More »
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