Veterans Affairs

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VA to Make National VLER Deployment Decision

Jennifer Prestigiacomo | Healthcare Informatics | October 7, 2011

Some light was shed on the progress that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been making on its Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) project at a National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) webinar earlier this week. Read More »

VA's Plan for Mobile Device Security

Howard Anderson | Government Information Security | October 20, 2011

Roger Baker, CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, outlines the department's mobile device security strategy, providing details on the rollout of iPhones and iPads. The VA expects to accommodate the use of as many as 100,000 iPads and iPhones within 18 months, including a mix of government-owned and personal mobile devices, Baker says. Read More »

VA, DOD Choose Open Source to Combine EHRs

Ken Terry | Information Week | September 9, 2011

In a decisive break with the past, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD), which operate the two largest healthcare systems in the country, on Aug. 30 officially launched an open-source community to help them revamp and unify their electronic health records. Read More »

VA, DoD Now Can Share More Sensitive Medical Records

Marla Durben Hirsch | Fierce Health EMR | November 2, 2011

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is loosening a rule that unduly restricts it from sharing information about certain sensitive medical conditions with the Department of Defense (DoD), according to an announcement made by the VA last week. Read More »

VA-DOD Details Joint EHR Interface for Unified View

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | September 21, 2011

The Veterans Affairs and Defense Departments have provided details on how they will rely on a graphical user interface to knit together current aging and proprietary systems into their planned integrated electronic health record (iEHR), providing a common look and feel. The shared interface will unify what the providers, employees and patients see even as functions and systems change on th Read More »

Vendors Compete to Add EHRs, Provider Data Exchange to Blue Button Initiative

Unknown | U.S. Medicine | September 1, 2011

When VA went live with its Blue Button download format last year, the goal was to give veterans the ability to download their personal-health information directly from their MyHealtheVet account. A new initiative announced this summer will expand that capability to private health-care records. Read More »

Veterans Affairs Selects ASM Research To Modernize Electronic Health Records

Press Release | ASM Research , Accenture | July 2, 2014

ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services Company, has been awarded a three-year, $162 million contract from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to support the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) Clinical Application and Enterprise Core Services. Read More »

VistA open source will ‘morph’ to VA-DOD joint EHR, VA CIO says

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | September 1, 2011

The joint electronic health record for the Veterans Affairs and Defense Departments will in effect be open source when it is complete, according to a senior VA official, who provided more details about how that will occur. VA is developing an open source track to modernize its VistA electronic health record and will incorporate the approach with DOD in the joint system. Read More »