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Former head of ONC continues to push forward with Open Health Tools
Robert Kolodner, MD, admits to keeping a low profile following his stint as interim National Coordinator for Health IT...Low profile notwithstanding, Kolodner has been anything but idle. It's just that he prefers "to do and then talk," he says. A new collaboration between Georgia Tech and the VA on health IT innovation has Kolodner talking. The forging of partnerships like this one, which Kolodner was instrumental in achieving, is the focus of this "recovering fed's" new work in health IT. Read More »
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Gibson: VA Pursuing Schedule Fix On Multiple Tracks
There are 11 known defects in the scheduling system, part of the VistA health record system, and those "are being patched as we speak," Gibson told members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on July 16. In addition, the VA is developing four new interfaces to make it easier for schedulers to access the system, and to give veterans the ability to access their own appointments data through the VA...
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Go-live gone wrong
Much anticipated, and sometimes hyped, electronic health record system rollouts cost millions of dollars and often end up causing chaos, frustration, even firings at hospitals across the country. Case in point: Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, a 600-bed hospital that is home to the celebrated Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital, and a part of the MaineHealth network. Read More »
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Government IT contractor sues VA over Cerner Deal
CliniComp, a major Pentagon and VA electronic health records provider, is suing the Department of Veterans Affairs over Secretary David Shulkin's decision to offer a no-bid contract to Cerner to replace the agency’s VistA system. The suit brought Friday in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims charges that the VA violated federal contracting law by making the June announcement without first conducting market research or assessing the cost of the contract. It demands that the judge restrain the VA from awarding the contract to Cerner until the protest is resolved.
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GTI Implements VistA System at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences
The prestigious government of India hospital, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre (JPNATC), All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi is one of GTI Infotel’s clients that has contracted with them to implement and maintain the VistA electronic health record (EHR) system. GTI is also under contract by JPNATC to upgrade VistA and has added several other software modules and services for the hospital, such as a web-based interface, a CRM module, and an off-site Call Center. Read More »
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Guadalupe County Hospital in New Mexico goes live on Medsphere's OpenVista
Guadalupe County Hospital today announced [it] has gone live on Medsphere’s OpenVista® electronic health record (EHR). Medsphere’s open-source EHR solution makes it feasible for this 10-bed Santa Rosa, N.M., hospital—one of the smallest acute-care facilities in the country not designated critical access—to affordably improve patient care and attest for federal Meaningful Use funds. Read More »
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Hagel mulls putting Defense Dept. on VistA
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Congress this week that he is investigating the possibility of switching the military's health records to the Veteran Administration's VistA to deal with long-running interoperability issues between the two systems. Read More »
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Hagel Opts for Commercial Electronic Health Record Software
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel opted to run procurements for commercial electronic health record software, which will “likely” include software based on the system used by the Veterans Affairs Department. The move is considered a blow to VA and a boon to the healthcare information technology industry, multiple sources said. Read More »
Health Care of the Future: Georgia Tech and Veterans Health Administration Collaborate to Accelerate Health IT Innovation
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) Innovation Sandbox Cloud and the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Interoperability and Integration Innovation Lab will collaborate to address interoperability issues, accelerate the development of integrated health IT solutions, provide an unbiased environment for testing new products and help train the IT workforce needed to move the industry forward. Georgia Tech is believed to be the first academic organization to connect directly to VHA’s system.
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Health eTime Scheduler: the Winning Solution
On October 3, 2013, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced the winners of its Medical Appointment Scheduling Contest. The Health eTime solution, developed by MedRed LLC, BT and VISTA Expertise Network, was named as 1st Place winner and awarded a $1.85 million prize. VA evaluators determined that Health eTime best instantiated their next generation scheduling requirements...What follows is a summation of the contest process, our efforts, as well as details of the emerging Health eTime solution. Read More »
Health eTime Wins VA Medical Appointment Scheduling Contest to Enhance Care for Veterans
Application developed by MedRed, BT and VISTA Expertise Network takes first place with comprehensive system that advances scheduling capacities for all involved in veterans’ care Read More »
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Health IT Innovation? Not Without Open Platforms
The issue here is closed platforms, which enable most EHR vendors to position themselves as the single source of innovation. They also create dependent customers and glacial progress in two parallel areas of innovation—evidence-based medicine and information technology. No one company can keep up with the natural pace of advancement in either realm, let alone both. Read More »
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HealtheMe
HealtheMe is an open-source, customizable health and wellness management system developed and supported by KRM Associates Inc. While it may be integrated with an Electronic Health Record (EHR), and supports the contribution of personal health information, its main application is as a care coordination tool. As a standards-based solution, it can be adapted easily into any number of use cases and expanded to support specific care plans and scenarios.
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HealtheMe: Personal Health Record & Wellness Management System
The open source HealtheMe personal health record (PHR) solution, developed by KRM Associates for use in many rural healthcare facilities across West Virginia, has just been turned over to the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) for release to the VistA and global healthcare communities. HealtheMe was designed to be an open source alternative to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) My HealtheVet PHR system. It contains all of the major features of My HealtheVet and more.
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Henry Elliott & Company
Henry Elliott & Company provides highly skilled, reputable and reliable Consultants, Contract Programmer/Analysts and other specialists primarily for the Caché, M (MUMPS) Technology Industry worldwide. They place a strong emphasis on providing highly qualified personnel with extensive Caché based healthcare application software experience and those with complimentary Web and Object Oriented (OO) software knowledge.
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