Health Records

How HHS Plans to Make Health IT Easier to Use

The agency wants to hear from doctors on how to make the tech more seamless in their day-to-day activities.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Report: Apple Is Working With VA to Help Vets Download Health Records

Vets would be able to have their health records on their iPhones.

  • By Jack Corrigan

VA’s $16 Billion E-Health Record Overhaul is Already $350 Million Over Budget

Just six months into the project, VA’s most important modernization effort is getting more expensive.

  • By Jack Corrigan

CDC is Testing Blockchain to Monitor the Country's Health in Real Time

The system would allow the agency to quickly respond to health crises as they unfold.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Report: Management Drama Threatens to Derail VA’s Health Records Overhaul

The vendor’s software is also falling short of the department’s requirements, according to ProPublica.

  • By Jack Corrigan

You Should Be Worried About Your DNA Privacy

DNA databases are just the beginning.

  • By Sarah Zhang and Vishkha Darbha, The Atlantic

Pentagon's Health Record Platform Shows Progress After Initial Setbacks

The system has decreased emergency room wait times and increased the number of patients facilities are able to treat, the vendor reports.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Hackers Breach Healthcare.gov

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acknowledged 75,000 people's records were accessed but haven’t disclosed who might be behind it.

  • By Frank Konkel

Pentagon, VA Leaders Commit to Boosting Accountability in Health Record Overhaul

Both secretaries pledged to re-examine the multibillion-dollar program’s organization structure and timelines.

  • By Jack Corrigan

24 Companies Join VA’s Health Record Modernization Team

Cerner Corp. announces a lengthy list of subcontractors for the multi-billion dollar project.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Congress Doesn’t Know Who’s in Charge of VA’s $10 Billion Health Records Overhaul

Lawmakers are trying to figure out what to do about the lack of accountability within the program’s leadership.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Lawmaker: Don’t Let “Rudderless Leadership” Cripple VA Health Record Overhaul

The program’s chief administrator resigned less than two months after taking charge of the project. Another top official left her post days earlier.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Report: Private Trump Advisers Tried to Derail the VA’s Multibillion-Dollar IT Overhaul

A ProPublica investigation found three advisers weighed in heavily on the hiring and firing of high-level tech leaders within the agency.

  • By Jack Corrigan

23andMe and Other Genetic Testing Companies Release Guideline on How to Handle DNA Data

This set of best practices doesn't guarantee privacy, though.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Trump Picks Marine Vet To Take Over Veterans Affairs IT

If confirmed, James Gfrerer would step into a difficult job, as IT is at the center of VA’s mandate to modernize.  

  • By Aaron Boyd

Report: IBM Watson AI Recommended Unsafe Cancer Treatments

The system was trained using hypothetical scenarios.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Drug Company Gains Access to 23andMe's Massive DNA Library

Do you know who has access to your DNA?

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Pentagon to Increase Health Records Contract Ceiling By Another Billion

The increase includes looping the Coast Guard into the contract, as well as additional capabilities.

  • By Jack Corrigan

VA Creates Special Office to Direct $16B Health Record Overhaul

The House Veterans Affairs Committee also unveiled the lawmakers who will track the project from its new subcommittee.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Congress Studies the 3 Rs: Re-org, Re-clearance, Reauthorization

The bill that would name and shame hackers that attack U.S. targets also advanced.

  • By Joseph Marks and Heather Kuldell