Christopher Miller

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10 Things DoD Wants In Its Next EHR

Staff Writer | Government Health IT | September 2, 2014

Ending months of anticipation, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released its official request for proposals to modernize its Electronic Health Records (EHR) system and enable the DoD to share health data with the private sector and the Department of Veterans Affairs...

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Boost To VA EHR In The Works

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | July 4, 2014

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a three-year, $162 million contract for upgrades to its VistA electronic health record. The announcement comes just as government officials assert in a news release Thursday that the multi-billion dollar acquisition to modernize the Department of Defense electronic health record is on track...

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Bulk Of Wasted DOD, VA iEHR Money Went To Support Contracts

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | November 25, 2013

Think Epic implementation is a costly prospect?  How about spending $1.1 billion on a joint Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs EHR that never even got off the ground? Read More »

DoD Allocates $70 Million To Medical Imaging

Erin McCann | Government Health IT | January 6, 2014

Ramping up investments in digital radiography and medical imaging systems, the U.S. Department of Defense awarded a one-year $70.2 million contract extension to imaging provider Carestream Health. Read More »

DOD Health Record Procurement To 'Lead The Way' On Interoperability

Adam Mazmanian | FCW | September 4, 2014

...A new cross-cutting organization, the Defense Health Agency, was launched as a military shared service. Since being announced in September 2013, DHA has opened nine of its 10 shared service areas, including health IT...

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DoD Opens Bidding For Massive EHR And IT Modernization

Erin McCann | Government Health IT | August 27, 2014

...The broad DoD Healthcare Management Systems Modernization undertaking, aka DHMSM — dubbed “Dim-Sum” by industry insiders — puts as much as $11 billion at stake, so the biggest vendors and consultants have been banding together for several months now to answer DoD’s request for proposal...

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DOD Seeks Value, Quality In Modernizing Health Records System

Tyrone C. Marshall Jr. | Defense.gov | November 14, 2013

The Defense Department's senior official leading the competitive acquisition to modernize its health care management system has said he’s committed to ensuring the best value for taxpayer dollars while safeguarding quality of care. Read More »

DoD Takes Next Step In Modernizing Electronic Health Records

Jim Garamone | The Dolphin | August 28, 2014

The Defense Department has issued a request for proposals to modernize its electronic health records and allow DoD to share health data with the private sector and the Department of Veterans Affairs.  It is a multi-billion dollar request to replace many of the current DoD legacy health care systems...

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Google, PwC Bidding for $11B DoD Health System Modernization Project

Jaikumar Vijayan | eWeek | January 18, 2015

When Google and PricewaterhouseCoopers announced a business partnership last October, they described the move as an effort to jointly compete for large projects leveraging PwC's consulting experience and Google's Cloud Platform technologies. Last week, the two companies followed through on that announcement with PwC including Google in a team that is bidding for a massive $11 billion health system modernization effort at the U.S. Department of Defense.

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HHS Proposes Path To Improve Health Technology And Transform Care

Press Release | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | January 30, 2015

ONC issues draft nationwide health IT Interoperability Roadmap; Implementation resources also released as first deliverable...

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Pentagon Accepts Bids on Long-Awaited Health Records Contract

Frank Konkel | Nextgov | August 26, 2014

The Defense Department on Monday opened its Healthcare Management Systems Modernization contract to bids, beginning what could be an $11 billion effort over the next decade to modernize the way the Pentagon provides health care to service members. Read More »

Pentagon Taps SPAWAR Folks To Run Electronic Health Record

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | October 29, 2013

The new Defense Department office set up to manage development of the next generation, multi-billion dollar electronic health record has filled its key positions  with personnel drawn from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Nextgov has learned. Read More »

Pentagon’s Electronic Health Record Not Ready for Initial Use Until 2017

Bob Brewin | NextGov | November 19, 2013

The Defense Department will not start deploying its modernized electronic health record until 2017, nine years after President Obama called on the Pentagon and the Veterans Affairs Department to develop a joint EHR. Read More »

Reporting from the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) Project Vendor Day

For over a decade, DoD and the VA have been talking EHR collaboration, see-sawing between a possible open source oriented solution like VistA versus a proprietary option such as EPIC. At the second DoD Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) Project Vendor Day held on December 4th  in Washington, D.C., the project’s program manager announced his management team will pursue a DoD 'core' EHR solution independent of the VA-DoD  Interagency Program Office (IPO). Read More »

The Case Of The Disappearing Health Record Presentations

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | January 2, 2014

Last November I wrote a piece for our news pages detailing plans for the Defense Department’s new and long delayed electronic health record based on presentations made at an Oct. 31 industry day by the new management of the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization -- or DHMSM – office in the Defense Health Agency. Read More »