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Lawmaker Wants To Cut Backlog On Veterans' Claims
The Florida Republican who chairs the House Veterans Affairs Committee wants to speed up the time it takes to process veterans' disability claims. Read More »
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Lawmakers Dispute DoD, VA’s Claims of Health Record Interoperability
Three months ago, the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs certified to Congress that their electronic health records could finally exchange data in a meaningful way. But lawmakers aren’t satisfied with that assertion and are looking for more clarity on what “interoperability” actually means. With some fanfare, the two departments both attested that they’d met a 2014 congressional mandate to make all of their respective health data interoperable with one another’s IT systems...
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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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Lawmakers Pessimistic On VA-DoD E-Records Plan
Mike Viterna, president of the National Organization of Veterans’ Advocates, said in an interview that the importance of improving the military health records system can’t be overemphasized. “These inefficiencies delay necessary care and compromise that care,” Viterna said. “People need their records for disability claims. They’re being underserved.”... Read More »
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Lawmakers Push Hagel On DoD-VA Interoperability
Lawmakers on the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees are pressuring Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel for clarification on the agency’s plans for speeding up information sharing and updating its electronic health record system. Read More »
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Lawmakers Urge VA To Keep Better Records
Lawmakers are pressing for digitization of military records, and better file sharing among agencies responsible for them, following media reports of missing or inaccurate unit records and the temporary disappearance of 250 files from the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. Read More »
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Lawmakers Wonder If VA Underestimates Impact Of Health Care Reform
A House committee is concerned that the Veterans Affairs Department may be underestimating the cost and burden of national health care reform for veterans’ hospitals and clinics. Read More »
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Levin Confirmed to Speak at FedScoop's MobileGov Summit
Veterans Affairs Senior Advisor to the Secretary & CTO Dr. Peter Levin is confirmed to speak at FedScoop’s 2nd Annual MobileGov Summit. MobileGov is a one of kind gathering of the most influential government and tech industry thought leaders and will be held on Thursday, February 23, 2012, at Hotel Monaco, located in Washington, D.C.
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Levin Warns On NHS Open Source Approach
The former chief technology officer of the US Department of Veterans Affairs has warned that NHS England’s bid to bring open source to the health service will fail without a central authority to curate it. Read More »
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Lifetime Cost Of Care Of Wounded
No agency has calculated for higher survival rates, longer tours of duty, multiple injuries... Read More »
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LiveData OR-Dashboard, KARL STORZ OR1 Deployed In New Operating Rooms At Miami VA Healthcare System
LiveData, Inc. today announced that the company's OR-Dashboard has been installed into a new integrated OR system at the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Facility in Miami, providing the cornerstone for advances in both workflow efficiency and patient safety. Read More »
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Local Health Care Providers Embrace New Technology
For some of the area's largest healthcare providers, patient care is going to be impacted the most by what goes on behind the scenes rather than on the operating table in 2012. Information technology is an ever-evolving science that hospitals, physicians and nurses must interact with on a daily basis. Read More »
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Longtime VA Researcher Receives Lasker-DeBakey Award
Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, a long-time VA researcher often called “the father of human transplantation,” has received one of the world’s top awards for science from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Read More »
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Lost Among Us: New Veterans Programs Aim To Reach Homeless And Mentally Ill
It is a mighty goal — to end veteran homelessness by 2016. Sounds a bit lofty even. But the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been putting its money where its PR is. Read More »
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Lost To History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims By Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans
The loss of field records — after-action write-ups, intelligence reports and other day-to-day accounts from the war zones — has far-reaching implications. It has complicated efforts by soldiers like DeLara to claim benefits. And it makes it harder for military strategists to learn the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan, two of the nation's most protracted wars.
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