Health Records

VA Signs $10 Billion Health Records Contract With Cerner

VA will formally pursue the same health records platform as the Pentagon.

  • By Frank Konkel and Heather Kuldell

Initial Tests Find Defense Department’s MHS Genesis ‘Not Operationally Suitable’

The test director recommends delaying further fieldings.

  • By Frank Konkel and Heather Kuldell

The Burnout Crisis in American Medicine

Are electronic medical records and demanding regulations contributing to a historic doctor shortage?

  • By Rena Xu, The Atlantic

Net Neutrality Fight Returns to the Hill

Plus lawmakers want to know what the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is doing about Equifax and what 's delaying the Veterans Affairs Department's health record purchase.

  • By Joseph Marks and Heather Kuldell

VA Dems Demand Answers on Electronic Health Records Delay

A $16 billion contract to modernize health records has been in limbo during turmoil at the agency.

  • By Joseph Marks
Fitbit's Alta HR device is displayed in New York. Fitbit's Alta HR device is displayed in New York.

Fitbit Using Google Cloud to Make Your Data Available to Doctors

You won't be able to lie about your exercise habits anymore.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Adm. Ronny Jackson Adm. Ronny Jackson

With No Permanent Leadership, VA Forges Ahead on $16 Billion Health Records Effort

The Veterans Affairs Department will press on with its electronic health records contract without a permanent secretary or chief information officer.

  • By Frank Konkel

Defense Electronic Health Records Program Seeks Help Organizing Influx of Data

The Defense Health Agency wants to know if a vendor can help match all the new data it’s collecting with the old.

  • By Aaron Boyd

$1.65 Trillion Federal Health Market Will Be Boon For IT Industry

The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments' electronic health records programs will be the largest spending areas, according to analysts.

  • By Aaron Boyd

Coast Guard to Adopt Defense Department’s Electronic Health Records

The U.S. Coast Guard will go with the Defense Department’s MHS Genesis health records program, the same option currently being considered at Veterans Affairs.

  • By Aaron Boyd

GAO: Medicare Agency Isn’t Doing Enough to Ensure Beneficiary Data Is Secure

The agency hasn’t established firm rules for how researchers must secure the data.

  • By Joseph Marks
Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin

Shulkin’s Firing Leaves $16B Effort to Merge DoD/VA Health Records Up In The Air

Secretary Shulkin championed a contract with Cerner to develop a new health records system for Veterans Affairs, but the deal seems precarious now.

  • By Frank Konkel

Kushner Announces ‘Whole of Government’ Plan To Improve Health Tech

Presidential adviser Jared Kushner said the administration has a plan to prioritize access to and interoperability of patient health data.

  • By Aaron Boyd

The 'Genome Hacker' Who Mapped a 13-Million-Person Family Tree

Huge crowdsourced genealogy databases are inspiring new genetics research.

  • By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin

VA Secretary on $10B Health Records Contract: ‘We Have To Get This One Right’

The Trump administration requested $1.2 billion in fiscal 2019 for a commercial health records contract, which the department is expected to award by March.

  • By Frank Konkel
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon

To Master Health Care, Amazon Must Master Information And Communication

Health care is a little different than selling books.

  • By Mark Nathan, Quartz

Veterans Affairs Wasted Closer to $2 Billion On Failed IT Projects

The department misspent even more than government investigators initially believed in attempting to modernize its health records system.

  • By Frank Konkel
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.

Congress Calls Coast Guard's Health Records System A 'Five-Year Epic Failure'

The modernization project went over budget and didn't yield any reusable software or equipment.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Google Is Using 46 Billion Data Points to Predict the Medical Outcomes of Hospital Patients

Google hopes to predict your medical outcome as soon as you’re admitted to the hospital.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

Optimization Is Next Step For Defense Department’s Health Records Platform

The Defense Department and the contractors building its $4.3 billion health records platform say they’re on schedule

  • By Frank Konkel