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VA to Test Brain-injury Telemedicine Program
The U.S. Veterans Affairs Department will be launching a five-hospital pilot program to study how using telemedicine can improve care for military veterans with concussions or mild traumatic brain injury. Read More »
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VA Undercounted Afghanistan And Iraq War Veteran PTSD Cases
The Veterans Affairs Department has undercounted the number of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans seeking care over the past decade for post-traumatic stress disorder by 10,299 cases or roughly 4 percent, the VA acknowledged in a revised June 2012 report. Read More »
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VA Wants Advanced Clinical Decision Support for iEHR
The Veterans Affairs Department wants industry help to describe standard technical specifications for services that are needed for clinical decision support that could be incorporated in its integrated electronic health record (iEHR) with the Defense Department. Read More »
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VA Wants Application To View VistA Images On Mobile Devices
The Department of Veterans Affairs wants to develop an application that will allow clinical images stored on its Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture electronic health record to be viewed on mobile devices. Read More »
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VA Western New York Healthcare System Unveils Electronic Medical Record Initiative to Benefit Veteran Patients
Western New York is one of 13 communities in the United States selected by VA to participate in the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Health Communities Program. Participating physicians from VA, private practices and hospitals across Western New York will be able to access critical health information for their Veteran patients through HEALTHeLINK, Western New York's clinical information exchange. Read More »
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VA Working On Video Health Apps
The Veterans Affairs Department has rolled out a suite of apps for clinicians and patients that pull information from the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture electronic health record. [...] Read More »
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VA, DoD Climb The Stairs To Interoperability Together
Leaders in the healthcare community are thinking of ways they can use data to improve the quality of health care. The departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense have joined forces to create VistA Evolution, a system that allows the exchange of electronic health records information between the two. Read More »
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VA, DOD Oromise Online, Lifelong Military Medical Records by 2017
The departments of defense and veterans affairs plan to fully merge their health care records systems in the next five years, with the goal of giving troops and veterans a single, seamless system to track medical care throughout their lifetime.
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VA, DoD Owe EHR Plan To Congress By End Of January
Funding legislation agreed to by the House and Senate this week mandates that the U.S. Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense present a plan for building either an interoperable or single electronic health record by the end of January. Read More »
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VA, DoD To Expand Health Information Exchanges
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are ready to expand 13 pilot programs and offer veterans’ health information exchanges nationwide. Read More »
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VA, HHS Team Up On Telehealth
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki have announced a joint effort to expand care delivery to veterans living in rural areas. Read More »
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VA-DoD Integrated Health App Coming, Says VA Official
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are working on a mobile application that will complement the integrated electronic health record, said Kathleen Frisbee, director of web and mobile solutions at VA. Read More »
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Vampire Data And 3 Other Cyber Security Threats For 2013
Kroll Advisory Solutions has released its 2013 Cyber Security Forecast, spotlighting some of the pressing and perhaps unexpected privacy and security issues healthcare and other organizations may be grappling with in the coming year. Read More »
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Vanderbilt Opens mHealth App Contest
Vanderbilt University officials announced Wednesday the kick-off of a new mobile health app challenge intended to transform patient clinical summaries into comprehensible, user-friendly health data. The contest is open to software developers worldwide and promises $20,000 in prize money for the best of the best. Read More »
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Vanishing Practices & The Impact On Health IT
[Unlike] the managed care movement of the ’90s, the current trend of hospital/physician acquisition is much more profound and is being influenced by multiple drivers instead of just one. We need take notice of this trend this time around because it has the potential to not only impact health IT, but forever change the landscape of healthcare delivery in the United States.
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