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Ushahidi Community Hours @ Crowdmap

Heather Leson | Ushahidi | February 4, 2013

You requested it, we’re making it happen. You asked for Community Hours to meet each other and learn while we all build expertise... Read More »

Ushahidi Raises Over $127K To Ensure Internet Access Worldwide

Patrick Peck | BET.com | May 29, 2013

The non-profit technology company developed BRCK to help Internet users from San Francisco to Nairobi get connected and stay online. Read More »

V&V As a Way of Life

Will Schroeder | Kitware Blog | November 1, 2011

For those of you who don't know, V&V in this context is about ensuring that a software system meets specifications and that it fulfills its intended purpose. Validation addresses the question "Are we building the right thing?" and verification addresses the question "Are we building it right?" Read More »

VA Considers Moving Email, Office Software to the Cloud

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | February 22, 2012

The Veterans Affairs Department plans to test email and other office software in a cloud computing environment and to try out potentially lower cost alternatives to Microsoft Office products -- such as Google Apps -- in two pilot projects set to kick off this year. Read More »

VA Contest Seeks VistA Appointment Scheduling Tools

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | October 16, 2012

The Veterans Affairs Department has launched a competition to modernize the software that helps veterans schedule medical appointments as VA moves its VistA electronic health record to open source applications. Read More »

VA Looks To Apply Innovation To Better Care And Service For Veterans

Alex Howard | O'Reilly Radar | February 21, 2013

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs launched a new innovation center to solve big problems. Read More »

VA Networks Besieged By Foreign Attackers, IG Says

Nicole Blake Johnson | Federal Times | June 4, 2013

Foreign attackers have repeatedly penetrated Veterans Affairs Department networks for at least the past three years, potentially gaining access to millions of unencrypted veterans records and other sensitive databases, according to House lawmakers and VA inspector general auditors. Read More »

VA Open Source Group Names Board of Health IT Experts

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | March 7, 2012

The open source organization that the Veterans Affairs Department created to accelerate innovation in its VistA electronic health record software and to support its integrated EHR system with the Defense Department has established a guiding board of IT luminaries. The Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) promotes open, modular architecture that uses non-proprietary standard Read More »

VA Open Source Health Software Site is Open for Business

Bob Brewin | NextGov | August 30, 2011

The Veterans Affairs Department open source electronic health record software website went live today with a pitch that it will serve as the nexus for an "open source community designed to unleash innovation in electronic health record software." Read More »

VA Plans to Tap Original Bidders for Canceled Software Contract

Staff | Nextgov | March 2, 2012

The Veterans Affairs Department plans to select a new vendor from the pool of original bidders to develop software vital to creating an integrated electronic health record (iEHR) with the Defense Department. The new contractor will replace ASM Research, the company first awarded the $102.6 million contract VA abruptly terminated Tuesday due to conflict-of-interest concerns. Read More »

VA Wants Advanced Clinical Decision Support for iEHR

Mary Mosquera | GovernmentHealthIT | July 3, 2012

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 »

Valve: Windows 8 Is A 'Catastrophe' For PCs

Charlie Osborne | ZDNet | July 26, 2012

Microsoft's next-generation operating system has taken a beating from the press, analysts, and developers alike over the past year. Read More »

Vanishing Practices & The Impact On Health IT

Ken Congdon | Healthcare Technology Online | June 5, 2012

[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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Vendor Tapped without Competition for Key Parts of Defense-VA Pharmacy System

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | June 5, 2012

Buried deep in an ostensibly competitive new procurement for the pharmacy information system to serve the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments’ integrated electronic health record is the fact that VA already has selected a vendor to provide key components of what will become the largest pharmacy management system in the world.