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Here Comes the Navy Pharmacy System
Even though the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments just kicked off the procurement process for a joint pharmacy information system as part of the integrated electronic health record, I have picked up strong signals that the Navy Bureau of Medicine plans to develop its own pharmacy system over the next couple of years.
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Hey, How About an iEHR Systems Integrator?
That’s what the Veterans Affairs Department sort of plans for the $4 billion integrated electronic health record it expects to develop with the Defense Department by 2017, based on language squirreled away inside procurement documents it released last week for a joint pharmacy system.
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3 Implications of 3M’s Open Source Health Data Dictionary
Last month, 3M Health Information Systems released their Health Data Dictionary as open source software making it free and available worldwide. The open source contract is part of an agreement with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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5 Ways Mobile Tech Can Improve Your Health
[People] increasingly access healthcare services via mobile, or “mHealth.” The result: Mobile is having a transformative effect on the way physicians and nurses care for patients. It’s also impacting how consumers manage their own health and well-being. Read More »
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A Sustainable National Healthcare System: Prevention Only
The current sickcare system will bankrupt the nation. One model of a sustainable national system would focus solely on providing preventative care. Read More »
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Agency App Development Could Be 'a Little Bit Painful,' Says Baker
As agencies begin to roll out more internal and citizen-facing mobile applications, there will be "a ton of lessons learned," said Roger Baker, chief information officer of the Veterans Affairs Department. "It's going to be a little bit painful occasionally," Baker added June 4 at the Management of Change conference. Read More »
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An Introduction to VISTA Architecture
On Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. PDT I gave my first webinar, An Introduction to VISTA Architecture. It was in support of Fabián Lopez's webinar series for his VISTA Extensions Hub website, www.vxvista.org. It's the first in a series of webinars we'll be doing together, most of which will be about VISTA architecture, software lifecycle, and policy and planning.
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Aspect of Health Law Has Been Helping Veterans for Years
As Supreme Court arguments for and against the Affordable Care Act began Monday, the retiring director of the country's biggest Veterans Health System district said one element of the law transformed health care for veterans long ago. Read More »
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Call for Participation in the Automate Blue Button Initiative: Enhancing Consumer Access to Health Information
In response to feedback received during the June 4 Patient Access Summit, ONC and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will soon be launching an initiative to automate “Blue Button” by developing standards and specifications that allow patients to not only download their health information to their personal computer, but also to privately and securely automate the sending of that data from their health care providers to their personal health records, email accounts, health-related applications, or other preferred holding place.
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Close the Gaps on VA Healthcare Services
The number of veterans returning home from the two wars wounded and maimed - broken - is staggering. Here's an area where health IT has proven to be a force for good, yet not forceful enough. The childhood sing-song rhyme that ends, "All the kings horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again" may not be quite on point, but it keeps playing in the background, a reminder that we humans are fragile.
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Coming Soon: Health Innovation That Matters
The [VA's] Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) Innovation Sandbox Cloud and the Georgia Institute of Technology's Interoperability and Integration Innovation Lab announced on June 26 they would collaborate to address interoperability issues, accelerate the development of integrated health IT solutions, test new products and help train the IT workforce needed to move the industry forward. Read More »
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Congress: How Much More Must Veterans Sacrifice?
At a time when over 2.5 million American men and women have been added to the rolls of combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Veteran’s Affairs Committees of both the U.S. House and Senate have agreed to cap budget increases for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read More »
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Defense and VA Eye Commercial System for Managing Medical Tests
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have decided to focus on commercial products for a system to track laboratory work such as blood tests within their integrated electronic health record.
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Defense-VA Integrated Electronic Health Record Could Use Commercial Cloud
The technical blueprint for the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments integrated electronic health record makes the security and privacy of patient information the first priority of the joint system planned for deployment in 2017, backed by rigid clinician access control systems and secure patient identity systems.
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Department of Defense Makes EHR Software Free and Open
A downloadable, open source version of the military’s electronic health record software that is used for troops on the battlefield will be available through the nonprofit organization, Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA). Read More »
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