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DoD, VA Joint E-health Record Ahead of Schedule
The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are ahead of schedule on the development and implementation of an integrated electronic health record system, said Barclay Butler, director of the Defense-VA interagency office. Read More »
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DoD, VA's Health IT Efforts Grow Out Of Leadership, Necessity
The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are preparing to release a new request for proposals under their integrated electronic health records (iEHR) initiative, a move that will represent the latest sign of renewed progress in a complex effort to marry both departments' health IT systems. Read More »
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iEHR Aims To Be Agile And Open
Agile techniques have gained importance as the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments try to quickly launch the integrated electronic health record, or iEHR. With more than 100 scrum teams working at once, it's a lot to coordinate, said Barclay Butler, director of the DoD-VA interagency program office. Read More »
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Integrated Health Record Tests DoD's Agile Acquisition Aspirations
A year later, Dr. Barclay Butler was appointed to direct the Interagency Program Office (IPO) that will coordinate DoD and VA's activities. And he's come to the conclusion that development of the Integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR) just isn't compatible with the traditional DoD acquisition system.
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Lawmakers Grill DoD, VA Officials On iEHR In Closed-Door Meeting
The House Veterans Affairs Committee held a closed-door meeting May 23 to discuss progress toward a VA and Defense Department integrated electronic health record. Officials were "grilled" as lawmakers pressed for answers on the project, said one attendee. Read More »
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Pentagon Resists Administration’s Mandate for an Open Source Health Records System
President Obama has backed open standards for an integrated electronic health record system to serve the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments since his first term, but Pentagon plans to acquire commercial software to replace the department’s current EHR are “manifestly inconsistent” with that approach, J. Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s director of operational test and evaluation wrote in a blistering memo. Read More »
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Test centers for new DoD-VA health records system to open by Oct. 1
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments will use existing DoD facilities in Richmond, Va., and on Hawaii’s island of Maui to develop and test components of a new $4 billion integrated electronic health record (iEHR) system. The centers, to be opened at DoD’s joint information technology centers there by Oct. 1, are a key step in the departments’ effort to make active-duty military members’ electronic health records accessible to VA doctors, and to have vets’ records accessible to VA and other health care providers. Read More »
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The Defense-VA-Vendor Conference Nobody Wants You to Know About
An outfit called the Defense Strategies Institute will hold a conference in Alexandria, Va., May 15-16 on the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments’ planned integrated electronic health record featuring high ranking speakers from both departments. Any vendor who wants to attend can do so. But the media will be prohibited. Read More »
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VA And Defense Drop Vendor-Specific Database Requirement For Joint Pharmacy System
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have dropped a mandate that any vendor planning to bid on the pharmacy system for the integrated electronic health record use a drug database supplied by First Databank, a San Francisco-based subsidiary of media conglomerate Hearst Corp. Nextgov first reported the requirement on June 5.
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VA, DoD To Expand Health Information Exchanges
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are ready to expand 13 pilot programs and offer veterans’ health information exchanges nationwide. Read More »
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2019 Health IT Summit
AFCEA Bethesda will be hosting their 11th Annual Health IT Summit on January 29th and 30th at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center. This event will bring together more than 1,000 senior executives and IT professionals from across industry and government. They will explore strategies for leveraging modern IT technology and tactics to advance healthcare outcomes. Conference participants will discuss new and emerging trends in digital services, artificial intelligence, automation, health analytics, and cybersecurity.
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