Eric Shinseki
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Coming Soon: Pentagon’s Multi-Billion Dollar Health Records Contract
Sometime in the coming months, the Defense Department will bid out its Healthcare Management Systems Modernization contract, an effort so large in monetary size and game-changing scope that it could significantly influence the future of health care in the United States.
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Congress & GAO Take Aim At DOD-VA Health Records Program
When the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments last month announced a change of course in a long-awaited joint health records program, it sparked concerns at the Government Accountability Office. Now, the program faces further challenges from Capitol Hill. 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 Secretary Considers Commercial EHR System
The Defense Department is back in the market for an electronic health-record system for its sprawling healthcare empire, according to a memorandum from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Read More »
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Department Of Veterans Affairs: "They Are Rearranging The Deck Chairs On A Sinking Ship"
Veterans Wait for Benefits as Claims Pile Up
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DoD and VA back down from iEHR development
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments will forego development of a $4 billion integrated electronic health record system and instead focus on data interoperability, officials from both departments said. Read More »
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DoD Chastised For Role In VA Claims Backlog
Under fire from Congress for the Defense Department’s contributing role in the Veterans Affairs Department’s disability claims morass, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told House lawmakers Tuesday that DoD is “restructuring” relevant offices and responsibilities to ensure quicker delivery of medical records to VA. Read More »
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DoD Chastised For Role In VA Claims Backlog
Under fire from Congress for the Defense Department’s contributing role in the Veterans Affairs Department’s disability claims morass, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told House lawmakers Tuesday that DoD is “restructuring” relevant offices and responsibilities to ensure quicker delivery of medical records to VA. Read More »
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DOD Collects Feedback From Industry On EHR System Proposal
The Department of Defense is sorting through industry feedback on an electronic health record system proposal, Health Data Management reports. Industry comments on a request for information were due last week (Slabodkin, Health Data Management, 4/25).
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DOD Gets Feedback From Industry On Planned EHR System
The Department of Defense is getting help from industry in scoping out the minimum infrastructure specifications required to support deployment of an enterprise-wide electronic health record system. Among the technology areas that DOD is trying to get a handle on are hosting, network, device, and site characteristics information for its new EHR system.
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DoD Loses Control Of Health IT Budget After Fumbling iEHR
The Pentagon has taken away the Military Health System’s toys after MHS leaders failed to play nice with billions of dollars allotted to developing an integrated EHR with the Department of Veterans Affairs... Read More »
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DoD, VA accelerate schedule for integrated health record
The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are revamping their plan to integrate the electronic health records used by their two large medical systems, promising the new approach will deliver capabilities sooner and for less money.
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DoD, VA Establish Two Multi-Institutional Consortia To Research PTSD And TBI
In response to President Obama’s Executive Order, the [DoD and VA] highlighted today the establishment of two joint research consortia, at a combined investment of $107 million to research the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) over a five-year period. Read More »
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DOD, VA Pressed On Creating Electronic Medical Records
Lawmakers on Wednesday lamented stagnation in creating lifelong electronic medical records for troops and veterans, decrying a lack of leadership on the issue from the Defense Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the White House. Read More »
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DoD, VA Reassure Congress Of Continued Growth Of Health Data Sharing
Defense and Veterans Affairs department officials are reassuring House lawmakers that just because they are developing separate electronic health systems, it doesn't mean the two departments aren't sharing electronic health records today and will share even more in the future. Read More »
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