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Using Open Source in the Enterprise - 13 CIOs Embracing Free and Open Source Software

Edward Qualtrough | CIO | November 11, 2015

Open source enterprise use cases appear to be on the rise, at least anecdotally, with an increasing number of CIOs, IT directors and Chief Technology Officers telling CIO UK about investigating and adopting free and open source alternatives to proprietary software as they seek to gain freedom and flexibility, cut costs, increase agility, improve code quality and avoid vendor lock-in.

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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 Aims to Revolutionize Veteran Care with SCAN-ECHO

Kate Spies | Government Health IT | July 11, 2012

Down with the need for lengthy commutes, transportation costs, and too much time – the barriers that often decrease the quality of rural health are officially dissolving. Read More »

VA Awards Contract to DSS for Community Living Centers

Press Release | Document Storage Systems, Inc. (DSS) | November 3, 2015

Document Storage Systems, Inc. (DSS), the leading commercial product provider of VistA-based systems, today announced its prime contract award to provide a total replacement solution for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Resident Assessment Instrument/Minimum Data Set (RAI/MDS) system. RAI/MDS is a standardized assessment and treatment planning process designed to identify the functional and health care needs of the Veteran. Clinicians and administrators that oversee residential care were historically constrained by manual treatment modalities...

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VA Collaborating With Flow Health to Bring Artificial Intelligence and Precision Medicine to Veterans

Press Release | Flow Health | November 29, 2016

Flow Health today announced that it has formed a five-year partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to build a medical knowledge graph with deep learning to inform medical decision-making and train artificial intelligence (AI) to personalize care plans. The partnership’s fundamental objective is to understand the common elements that make certain people susceptible to particular diseases, pinpointing effective treatments and identifying possible side effects in order to inform care decisions...

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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 Partners With Kaiser Permanente

Press Release | Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Kaiser Permanente (KP) | February 19, 2014

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is collaborating with Kaiser Permanente, a leading member of the health care industry, to pool resources and ideas to solve some of the largest and most complex challenges in VA health care. [...] Read More »

VA Western New York Healthcare System Unveils Electronic Medical Record Initiative to Benefit Veteran Patients

Press Release | HEALTHeLINK, VA Western New York Healthcare System | July 31, 2012

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 »

VA Will Use $983K Grant To Expand Telehealth To Vets

Gienna Shaw | FierceHealthIT | September 14, 2012

The Department of Veterans Affairs continues its efforts to expand access to care for veterans using technology--including telehealth--this time through a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Read More »

VA-DoD Integrated Health App Coming, Says VA Official

Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceMobileGovernment | June 26, 2013

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 »

Valuable Mental Health Apps Lost in a Sea of Untrustworthy Digital Solutions

Evan Sweeney | Fierce Healthcare | April 10, 2017

The mental health industry has been flooded with potentially untrustworthy apps.
With more than 10,000 mobile health apps available to assist with mental health treatment, patients and clinicians now face the daunting challenge of parsing out trustworthy digital tools. That challenge has only intensified as more apps have entered the marketplace amid the FDA’s hands-off approach to regulating apps and wearables, researchers wrote in JAMA Psychiatry...

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Vermont Takes Unprecedented Step to Coordinate Health Care Delivery by Launching a Disruptive Information Sharing Technology with Adoption of PatientPing

Press Release | PatientPing | April 11, 2016

The State of Vermont is set to be the first in the nation to announce state-sponsored use of groundbreaking health information technology, PatientPing – taking historic action in remedying the trillion-dollar deficit caused partly by the fragmentation of the American health care system. On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, at Vermont Blueprint for Health 2016 in Burlington, VT, PatientPing Founder & CEO Jay Desai, state officials and health care representatives will publicly announce the adoption of PatientPing across in-state health care providers...

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Veterans Affairs Broadens View Of Mobile Devices

John Pulley | Nextgov | November 14, 2012

The Department of Veterans Affairs seeks a contractor to develop an application that will view images from the VistA electronic health record on mobile devices. Read More »

Veterans Affairs Tackles Homelessness Among Vets In Pacific Islands

Clarissa V. David | Saipan Tribune | August 24, 2012

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has made “great” progress the last few years in addressing homelessness among veterans-one of the areas that the federal agency is focused on as part of its efforts to bring about a “more effective” system in taking care of those who have served in the nation's armed forces. Read More »

Vets Call for VA EHR Optimization, Interoperability Advances

Sara Heath | EHR Intelligence | September 15, 2016

The Department of Veterans Affairs needs an overhaul of its Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture (Vista) EHR — either in the form of EHR optimization or a commercial EHR replacement — to improve care quality for American veterans, several veterans groups have claimed. Purchasing a commercial EHR may alleviate some of the VA’s issues in developing a robust health IT system, Harvey suggested. Few hearing witnesses disagreed that VA’s health IT infrastructure and EHR system need a significant overhaul...

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