Department of Defense (DoD)
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Defense Department's EHR Plan May Cost Taxpayers Billions
The Defense Department's on-again, off-again flirtation with the Veterans Affairs Department's VistA electronic health-record system appears to be on again. But this time, a lot of other suitors will compete for the military's affection and what likely will be billions of taxpayers' dollars. Read More »
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Defense Failed To Adequately Manage Terabytes Of Iraq War Data
Records for U.S. forces in Iraq as of 2010 amounted to 20 to 50 terabytes of data -- as much as five times all the books cataloged by the Library of Congress -- with the information stored in an unmanaged, unstructured format with no metadata, according to an internal Pentagon report that the Defense Department Freedom of Information Act Office released Dec. 4. Read More »
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Defense Health Agency Focusing On IT For Savings, Efficiencies
One of the Defense Department's newest components is at the center of one of the Pentagon's biggest IT program overhauls, but the Defense Health Agency is also looking beyond an update of electronic health records to other ways technology can empower change amid budget cuts. Read More »
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Defense Health Records Meltdown
I have confirmed that AHLTA, the Defense Department's electronic health record system, experienced an "enterprise-wide" shutdown that lasted most of the day Tuesday. Read More »
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Defense IG: TRICARE Acquisition Staff Lack Required Certification And Training
Procurement personnel at the TRICARE Management Activity, which had an acquisition budget of $18.8 billion in 2012, lacked formal certification for their jobs, proper training and accurate position descriptions, the Defense Department Inspector General said in a highly critical report released yesterday. Read More »
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Defense Secretary Considers Commercial EHR System
The Defense Department is back in the market for an electronic health-record system for its sprawling healthcare empire, according to a memorandum from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Read More »
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Defense Still Mulling Next Steps On Electronic Health Record
Last Wednesday I asked the Pentagon and the Defense/Veterans Affairs Interagency Program Office charged with integrated electronic health record development when they plan to start the contracting process for commercial systems announced by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on May 21, and who would run them. Read More »
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Defense-VA Electronic Health Record Stumbles At Chicago Hospital
Despite an investment of $100 million since 2009, the Chicago hospital managed jointly by the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments has not fully developed a joint electronic health record because officials haven’t been able to create a numbering system for prescriptions, the Institute of Medicine said in a report released today. Read More »
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Defense-VA Medical Records Scanning System Not Ready For Prime Time
The Defense Department plans to deploy by Dec. 31 a bulk scanning system to turn paper medical records into electronic files for transfer to the Veterans Affairs Department, but the system remains “far from ready for prime time,” knowledgeable sources told Nextgov. Read More »
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Defunct Defense-VA Health Record Office Spent Bulk Of Budget On Support Contracts
The now moribund interagency program office charged with developing an integrated electronic health record for the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments spent $1.1 billion during its five year life, with the bulk of that going to support service contracts, based on a Nextgov review of Pentagon reports to Congress and testimony. Read More »
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Department Of Veterans Affairs And Department Of Defense Interagency Program Office Awards Systems Made Simple Re-Compete Of iEHR System Integration Contract
Systems Made Simple, Inc. (SMS), a leading provider of IT systems and services to support critical architecture, data and application challenges in the healthcare industry, today announced that it has been awarded a re-compete of the Integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR) System Integration contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) Interagency Program Office (IPO). Read More »
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Did Jon Stewart Foil the Pentagon's Health Records Plan?
I’m picking up strong signals that the Military Health System abruptly scrapped plans to upgrade its electronic health record -- the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application, or AHLTA -- as senior Defense Department officials lean toward adopting the Veterans Affairs Department’s EHR -- the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, known as VistA. Read More »
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DISA Data Centers to Play Host to VA-DoD Health Records System
The Defense Information Systems Agency, which manages several IT functions for the federal government and the military services, will play a key role in the integration of health records between the Veterans Affairs Department and the Defense Department. Read More »
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DISA Revises Software Guideline Clarifying Open Source Rules
The Defense Information Systems Agency has updated the Application Security & Development Security Technical Implementation Guide, clarifying a commonly-misunderstood Defense Department policy that many saw as a hurdle to open source software use at DoD.
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Do DoD changes signify last nail in iEHR's coffin?
Seismic shifts in defense healthcare policy are complicating the government’s plans for portable and comprehensive electronic patient health records, with a rift forming between the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Veterans Administration (VA) over the right way to move forward. Read More »
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