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House Blasts 'U-Turn' On iEHR Project
House Veterans' Affairs Committee members had some harsh words for VA and Department of Defense officials at a hearing on Wednesday for altering their approach to forming an integrated electronic health record, calling the move "a step backward." Read More »
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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 Oversight Leaders Find Rare Bipartisan Agreement On Open Source IT Reform
Issa has proposed legislation to reform federal information technology acquisitions that, among other things, would urge agencies to use open source software when possible. 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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In Capitol Hill testimony, Baker touts open-source advantage
VA technology chief Roger Baker made a spirited defense of the VA's plan to save money and improve its own EHR system through an open-source EHR improvement effort. Read More »
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Innovation At VA: Collaboration, Data Aid Veteran Benefits Project
A collaborative effort to combine data previously scattered across multiple federal agencies has led to a single portal where veterans can access key benefits. Read More »
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Internal Memo from CIO Roger Baker Sets Oct. 1 Deadline for Open Source Transition at VA
Open Health News has just obtained a copy of an internal memo sent by VA CIO Roger Baker to all the "Under Secretaries, Assistant Secretaries and other Key Officials," of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where he sets a deadline of October 1, 2012 to implement the VA's open source initiative for VistA.
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Is iEHR Really Dead?
Is the highly-anticipated joint iEHR that the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have been working on ready for a burial? Or not? Read More »
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Issa Proposes Legislation To Reboot Federal IT
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is floating proposed legislation that would drastically reform the way federal technology is purchased, including by granting agency chief information officers authority over their information technology budgets. Read More »
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Obama Nomine Makes her Case to Take Over Tech at VA
LaVerne H. Council, the private-sector IT consultant and former Fortune 50 CIO who is President Barack Obama's pick to take over the Office of Information and Technology at the Department of Veterans Affairs, told lawmakers May 5 how she planned to manage the VA's technology team and its $4.2 billion in annual tech spending. Read More »
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Open Source Is So Much More Than Free Code
In 2011, the Department of Veterans Affairs officially moved its most critical software, the VistA electronic health record system, into open source by establishing the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA). Along the way, VA officials solicited and followed advice from numerous open source experts, including Red Hat, Carnegie Mellon University and the Industry Advisory Council...
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Open source tools, OSEHRA gain momentum at VA
Todd Park, the White House chief technology officer, spoke briefly at the conference and said that...“OSEHRA is catalyzing another ecosystem for open source software and health IT innovation that no closed system could do," Park said. "This is unbelievably cool."
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Oroville Hospital's EHR Implementation Cost Well Under Industry Average
CEO Robert Wentz addresses VistA Community Meeting in Sacramento where he updated the audience on the latest developments of their open source VistA implementation as well as detailed cost data. Read More »
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OSEHRA 2012 Summit A Great Success
The 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit held this week at the Gaylord National Conference Center at National Harbor, just outside Washington D.C., was well attended by over 400 participants. The event was a huge success and many of the participants openly voiced the belief that this effect will be seen as the tipping point for open source in healthcare. It was "unbelievably cool" according to one of the participants, Todd Park, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the U.S. Government.
OSEHRA 2012: 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop to Discuss Innovations in EHRs and Health IT
The Open Source Electronic Health Records Agent (OSEHRA)...will host the 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop on Wednesday, Oct. 17th and Thursday, Oct. 18th. The Summit will feature more than 30 eminent panelists and speakers, including government officials, health care leaders, clinical care providers and policymakers as they engage with attendees from the public and private sector.
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