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Veterans Affairs: We want the DOD to pick us for its new EHR
The VA will be adding its competitive bid to a host of commercial offerings, said VA Secretary Eric Shinseki during a hearing this week, to give the DOD more options as it selects a new EHR system to replace the aging AHLTA suite. Read More »
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Vets Hit VA, DoD For Ditching Records Project
Leaders of several of the country's veterans' service organizations told lawmakers on Thursday that they need to push the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to keep going with a plan to integrate the medical records of troops and veterans. Read More »
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VistA Lead Designer Slams Hagel For iEHR Approach
A lead software designer for VistA recently called out Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel for not taking a patient-centric approach to the creation of an integrated electronic health record between DoD and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read More »
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VistA Marketing Ramps Up in Advance of DoD EHR Award
A marketing campaign aimed at raising the profile of the Veterans Affairs Department's open source electronic health record is in full swing. A non-profit group founded through a VA contract to advance the department's Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture has stood up a website, Twitter account and LinkedIn group to promote VistA. Read More »
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VistA's Scarlet Letter: A Gartner Rating
An analyst firm's rating is one major obstacle standing between the Defense Department and the Veterans Affairs Department's Veterans Integrated System Technology Architecture. Read More »
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What A Concept: VA Pitches Its Electronic Health Records System To Defense
The Defense Department went shopping for a new electronic health record system on Feb. 8, just two days after plans to develop a $4 billion integrated electronic health record with the Veterans Affairs Department went south. Read More »
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Why Is True Interoperability Crucial To Healthcare’s Future?
As the work between the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) has shown, true EHR interoperability is no small feat. The two federal agencies have put in considerable time, energy, and resources and still find themselves short of achieving fully interoperable EHR systems and under the gun with Congress demanding to see a detailed plan by the end of the month. Read More »
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5th Annual Warfighter Support IT Day Will Feature Health IT Panel
This coming Tuesday on August 28, the 5th Annual Warfighter Support IT Day will feature a high caliber panel focused on health IT. The panelists are experts in their field, and – of special interest to our readers – experts in the future iEHR (Integrated Electronic Health Record), a joint project spearheaded by the VA and DoD. Hailed as one of the most significant health IT initiatives to date, the iEHR's success “is critical to the White House,” and sparked the creation of the IPO (Interagency Program Office) so that leading experts – in fact, many of the panelists who will be present at the conference – could oversee and guide the project. Read More »
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ACT-IAC Executive Session with Dr. Barclay Butler, Director, DoD/VA IPO
Dr. Barclay Butler, Director, Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs Interagency Program Office (IPO) will speak an ACT-IAC Executive Session on the IPO vision and mission. He will cover IPO priorities to address the mission and operational requirements and anticipated funded objectives in the pipeline and general timeframes for important milestones. Read More »
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DoD/VA iEHR & HIE Summit
A non-partisan educational and training Summit designed as a "Town Hall" full spectrum view towards the DoD & VA's efforts at iEHRs and Federal HIE initiatives. The forum is created to encourage a real, pragmatic level of discussion and debate amongst all in attendance... Read More »
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