Department of Defense (DoD) news from FierceHealthIT
NewsVA shuts access to DoD medical records after data errors
Health information interoperability efforts between the Veterans Health Administration and the Military Health System suffered another setback, as the Department of Veterans Affairs cut off access to Read more...
Obama budget calls for more funding for ONC, comparative effectiveness
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology would get a $17 million funding boost, to a total of $78 million, under the Obama administration's budget proposal for fiscal Read more...
Obama plans longitudinal EMR for veterans
The Obama Administration announced last week that it will be rolling out an EMR for veterans that will contain all of their clinical and administrative information from the moment of enlistment to Read more...
Army rolls out speech recognition
The Army Medical Department is rolling out speech recognition technology in a big way as part of an effort to boost its clinicians' satisfaction with the military's electronic medical record system. Read more...
DoD launches personal health record with Microsoft, Google
Well, the personal health record (PHR) has officially become mainstream when the U.S. Department of Defense embraces it. The DoD, which apparently had its own PHR in place previously, is leveraging Read more...
DOD, VA move to SOA architecture to build interoperable systems
After struggling for years to bring their clinical databases together, the Department of Defense and the Veterans Affairs department have decided to move their EMR systems over to a service-oriented Read more...
VA, Defense share interoperable health data
For years, observers have criticized the health IT staff at the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs Department for having achieved so little in the way of interconnecting their patient care Read more...
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Federal spending on health IT to shoot up
Federal spending on HIT is set for a boom over the next five years, according to a new report from a market research firm. The firm, Input, projects that federal HIT spending will rise 7.1 percent Read more...
HIE may work best if starting small
So the VA EMR can't talk to the DoD's system--no surprise, given the gigantic bureaucracies involved. But it's daunting to consider that this is just one flavor of a nationwide problem we're facing Read more...
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