David Bowen
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Are The Keys To Interoperable Health IT Hidden Outside The Health Care Field?
To build a truly modern and interoperable health care system, some leading health IT experts think critical answers may be hidden in industries typically thought to be unassociated with health care...
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Defense And VA To Congress On Health Records: It's The Data, Not The Software
Top officials at the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments said Wednesday they will create a system to exchange standard clinical health data, which will allow the departments to develop a single, shared electronic health record without the need to build a joint system from scratch. Read More »
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DSI To Bring Together DoD And VA And Federal Health Agencies For Their 5th DoD/VA iEHR & HIE Summit
Defense Strategies Institute has announced the 5th iteration of their highly regarded DoD/VA iEHR & HIE Summit series that benefits the 501c3 Wounded Warrior Project: taking place September 30 – October 1, 2013 at The Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Sq, Washington, D.C. Read More »
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Hearing Focuses On Health Data Exchange Plans Of Pentagon, VA
At a House hearing on Wednesday, officials from the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs discussed their plans to develop a system to exchange standard clinical health data, rather than developing a joint electronic health record system as originally planned, NextGov reports. Read More »
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Joint EHR Costs Skyrocketed To $28 Billion, DoD Says
Physicians spending a paltry twenty or thirty thousand dollars on their EHR implementations can take comfort in the fact that they don’t have to foot the bill for the recently abandoned joint VA-DoD EHR system, which would have cost the taxpayers $28 billion, according to Frank Kendall, undersecretary of Defense for acquisitions. Read More »
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MHS, Navy CIOs Discuss EHR Adoption, DoD Choices At Summit
The CIOs of the Military Health System (MHS) and the US Navy, David Bowen and Commander Cayetano S. Thornton, took the stage at the Government Health IT Conference and Exhibition this week to discuss EHR adoption, modernization, and the swirling questions surrounding the Department of Defense’s efforts to find a suitable EHR to meet their needs. Read More »
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MHS, Navy CIOs Open Up About iEHR
In a surprisingly frank conversation about iEHR, CIOs of the Military Health System and the U.S. Navy offered a glimpse into how their organization makes large IT decisions, most notably concerning the EHR it is looking to acquire. Read More »
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Military Health System CIO talks EHR procurement
David Bowen’s title might be CIO of the Military Health System but these days he calls himself an anthropologist. Read More »
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Navy Medicine CIO: We Are Communicating With VA On EHR Efforts
The CIO for Navy Medicine insisted this week that the Department of Defense is maintaining open communication lines with the Department of Veterans Affairs on electronic health record efforts. Read More »
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New DoD Office Shifts EHR Acquisition Away From IPO
The Defense Department has created a new office called the DoD Healthcare Management System to handle the acquisition of a military electronic health record system. Read More »
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