Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
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House Committee Worried DoD, VA 'Moving The Goal Posts' On e-Health Records
A House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on the decision by the Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments to scale back plans for a joint integrated electronic-health records systems dredged up longstanding issues with the two departments' EHR efforts. Read More »
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House Spending Panel Backs Joint Defense-VA Electronic Health Record
Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday solidly backed development of a single, joint electronic health record for the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments in its preliminary version of VA’s fiscal 2014 spending bill. Read More »
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House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee On Economic Opportunity Hearing
H.R.331, direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to permit the centralized reporting of veteran enrollment by certain groups, districts, and consortiums of educational institutions; H.R.821, to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide surviving spouses with certain protections [...]. Read More »
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House: $1B Wasted On Vets’ Medical E-Records
The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have wasted about $1 billion in a failed effort to streamline medical record-keeping, the chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee said in a hearing Wednesday. Read More »
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Houston VA Research Center To Participate In National Initiative
The Department of Veteran Affairs has selected the Houston Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center to participate in a nationwide initiative. Read More »
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How A Flaw In VA Software Was Found
Security analyst Doug Mackey says his discovery of a vulnerability in the Department of Veterans Affairs' VistA electronic health record system highlights the importance of software security testing. Read More »
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How Can Government Battle A 'Suicide Epidemic' Among Veterans?
The Fort Hood shooting is an extreme and shocking example of what has become a chronic concern for the military: soldiers with mental-health problems taking their own lives. And it's not just the active-duty military who face what has become an increasingly daunting problem.
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How Many Billions For The New Defense EHR?
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments in February ditched plans to develop an integrated electronic health record due to costs, which had soared to $28 billion, according to new testimony from Frank Kendall, undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics. Read More »
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How Restyling The Mundane Medical Record Could Improve Health Care
The results of a contest sponsored by the White House shows how powerful a dose of design can be in treating what ails our medical system. Read More »
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How SMART on FHIR Grew Vendor Support for Interoperable HIT Apps
Kenneth Mandl, MD, and Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, both big players in creating SMART on FHIR, a major interoperability project, have recently recounted key details to the project and its successes in a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. This paper first explained the project, stating that the Substitutable Medical Applications and Reusable Technologies (SMART) project aimed to create a platform on which developers could make healthcare applications that could run interoperably across different health IT systems...
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How VA Is Driving Telemedicine
Telemedicine, or the broader term telehealth, allows patients to receive medical examinations from primary care physicians, consult with specialists, participate in one-on-one psychotherapy or counseling, and share diagnostic information using videoconferencing and other electronic communications tools. It has mainly been used to reach those who live in rural areas, but its influence is spreading. Read More »
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How VA Is Using Big Data To Keep Patients Out Of The Hospital
The Partnership for Public Service and IBM Center for The Business of Government recently issued “From Data to Decisions III: Lessons from Early Analytics Programs,” which examines successful early government users of data to see how they got started, what sustained them and how the data was used to improve mission-critical programs. Read More »
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HP Wins $39 Million Contract To Continue VistA Support
HP was awarded a five-year, $39 million contract to continue providing operations and maintenance software applications support for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, also known as VistA. Read More »
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Humana Launches Blue Button® Resource That Provides Members Access To Their Medical Information Digitally
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), one of the country’s leading health and well-being companies, is taking another step to simplify the ability of members to take charge of their health by providing access to their medical and financial information in digital form in alignment with the Blue Button initiative. Read More »
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iCare to Showcase Web-Based HTML5 GUI for VistA at Military EHR Conference
iCare releases pioneering new Graphical User Interface that would enable the Warfighter to access VistA on any device via any Web browser. Read More »
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