Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
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Peter Levin, CTO for Veterans Affairs, Doing a Great Job
Okay, I've worked with Peter for a couple years, and just saw a very positive article which understates his performance and results for vets. For those years, I've seen remarkable work including real innovation, like employee and vendor innovation, and increasing use of social media.
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Pharmacies See Business Case For Blue Button
Following newly guaranteed patient access to their lab tests, the country’s largest pharmacies are promising to adopt a simple consumer health technology tool: the Blue Button personal health record. Read More »
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Phoenix VA Program Gives ASU Nursing Students Career Experience
Students at ASU’s College of Nursing and Health Innovation say the Phoenix Veterans Affairs program at the school has provided them with valuable practical skills. Read More »
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Plan To Expand Chiropractic Services To More VA Medical Facilities Clears Senate Committee
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Caitlin Lukacs: (703) 812-0218 | [email protected]
Melissa Lee: (703) 812-0259 | [email protected]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 25, 2013
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Policy Conflicts Hurt Defense-VA Collaboration On Healthcare: GAO
"Incompatible policies" in several areas are preventing the U.S. Defense and Veterans Affairs departments from collaborating effectively at sites where the two healthcare systems deliver care, a federal audit has concluded. Read More »
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Poor Integration Between Hospital EHRs And NICUs
Responding to my story about lack of funding for electronic health records for pediatric nursing homes, Brian Carter, a superb neonatologist at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, notes... Read More »
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Practical Approaches for Handling Drug Shortages
According to the FDA, the number of drug shortages has nearly tripled over the last 6 years—jumping from 61 drug products in 2005 to 178 in 2010 and more than 200 in 2011.Such drug shortages, caused by a variety of factors...adversely affect drug therapy regimens, patient care, and health system finances. Read More »
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President Obama Takes Action On Vets’ Mental Health
Today President Obama signed an executive order to improve mental-health care for service members and veterans, who are killing themselves at alarming and baffling rates. The order affects the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Health and Human Services, Education and Homeland Security... Read More »
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Presidential Innovation Fellows Get Private And Public Sectors To Collaborate
When the Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program launched last summer, it elicited a great deal of interest from both the public and private sectors. The unique initiative represents the first time the federal government has asked for help from the private sector in such a specific way and provided a vehicle to accomplish it. Read More »
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Public and Private Sector Tech Helping Vets Get Jobs
Hey, people in Veterans Affairs and elsewhere are working with folks in private industry to help vets get jobs. They're doing some genuinely innovative work. Read More »
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Q&A: Bettina Experton Talks About The iBlueButton App
Humetrix has given the iBlueButton a technical design boost as a multi- and cross-platform health information hub that patients and providers can use to share health data at the point of care with the most popular mobile tools. Read More »
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Q&A: Why Was The VA Hacked?
In early June, a former Department of Veterans Affairs IT manager told members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee that the VA’s databases have been hacked by at least eight foreign organizations — notably by organizations linked with the Chinese military, which may have viewed (or taken) veterans’ personal identifying data, like Social Security numbers. Read More »
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Qbase Mobile Application Wins DoD/VA iEHR Award
Qbase Homeless REACH achieves more recognition; app helps caregivers for nation’s homeless access local services, resources. Read More »
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Qbase Wins Department Of Veterans Affairs “Project REACH" Challenge
Qbase LLC, a leading provider of information technology services, business intelligence solutions, and geographic search technologies, is pleased to announce that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected the Qbase Homeless REACH mobile application as the winner of their Project REACH [...] initiative. Read More »
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Quit Wasting Money On e-Health Records, Congress Tells Defense And VA
Worried that the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments might continue to spend years and billions of dollars in a “futile exercise” to develop their own electronic health record systems “and lose sight of the end-goal of an interoperable record,” lawmakers included funding restrictions in the 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Act the House passed Wednesday. Read More »
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