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iEHR to roll out in 2017
Much work remains on the joint integrated electronic health record system being created by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki told reporters earlier this week, which isn't due out until 2017.
VA patient scheduling system contributed to falsified wait times
A mess that's resulted in doctored behavioral health data by the Department of Veterans Affairs could be due, in part, to the use of scheduling technology developed in the early 1990s, according to
VA, DoD now can share more sensitive medical records
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is loosening a rule that unduly restricts it from sharing information about certain sensitive medical conditions with the Department of Defense (DoD),
VA expands lifetime electronic record pilot
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) is expanding its Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) pilot program to share the electronic health records of more veterans, it announced announced last
VA launches its open source EHR custodian
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), on a joint path with the Department of Defense, has gone live with its open source electronic health record agent (OSEHRA) to create a single EHR for veterans
Veterans sound off about recommended outsourcing of VA
Veterans in Oregon protested proposed cutbacks at their local VA hospital in Roseburg at a town hall meeting Wednesday, the News-Review reports. They were joined by federal, state and county
VA to outsource retrieval of medical records from private providers
The Department of Veterans Affairs will bring in an unspecified private contractor to help reduce the time required to obtain medical records of veterans from private physicians. The idea isn't as
IT to support greater collaboration between VA, Indian Health Service
Interoperable health IT is a major component of an expanded partnership between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service to improve the health of Native American and Native
VA to share health data with Indiana HIE
The Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding its efforts to share electronic clinical data with private healthcare organizations by partnering with members of the well-established Indiana Health
More than 1,800 veterans at risk for HIV due to VA hospital cleaning gaffe
Improperly washed dental equipment may have led more than 1,800 veterans being exposed to the hepatitis B and C viruses, as well as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection at the John
