Ideas
Health Modernization: Core IT Must Keep Up with Clinical Innovation
Updating old systems allow defense health officials a chance to consider new approaches to the processes, platforms and skill sets that could drive better outcomes.
Digital Government
VA Electronic Health Records Program Delayed Up to 12 Weeks For ‘Strategic Review’
House committee leadership plans to hold a hearing in April on the program and strategic review process.
Digital Government
Pentagon Wants a Commercial Electronic Health Record System for Animal Servicemembers
The Defense Health Agency is looking for a cloud-based veterinary EHR to replace its government-built system.
Modernization
DOD Tracking COVID Vaccinations with New Electronic Health Record System
The military was already developing a digital vaccination tracking system before the COVID-19 outbreak.
Ideas
COVID-19 Revealed How Sick the U.S. Health Care Delivery System Really Is
In reality, the U.S. health care sector is not a system at all.
Digital Government
Veterans Affairs Rolls Out Ethics Framework for Guarding Vets’ Data
The agency aims to set expectations around who can manage, view and access veteran data.
Modernization
GAO Recommends VA Pause EHR Deployment to Resolve Issues
The Veterans Affairs Department told auditors it will move on with deployments while addressing test findings.
Emerging Tech
The Evolution of Public Health
Driven by a global pandemic, federal agencies stepped up with new strategies and embraced new technical capabilities to combat the coronavirus and meet their missions.
Modernization
Military Health Officials: Electronic Health Records Rollout On Schedule and Ready for COVID Vaccine
After a pause this spring, the MHS Genesis rollout is back on track, with two deployment waves scheduled for early 2021.
Modernization
VA Launches New Electronic Health Record Platform Amid a Pandemic, Wildfires and Citywide Power Outages
Nature seemed to be against the Veterans Affairs Department’s new EHR system. But officials are reporting a “flawless” cutover for the first deployment.
Modernization
VA-DOD Health Exchange Adds 15,000-Member Hospital Network
The CommonWell Health Alliance officially joined the joint health information exchange, broadening the government’s ability to digitally share patient data with private health care providers.
Modernization
VA Takes Important Step in Prep for New Health Records Launch
The Veterans Affairs Department successfully transferred data of thousands of patients to its new electronic health records system.
Modernization
VA Officials Hope to Wrap Training, Testing Before October Go-Live of EHR Program
Despite numerous obstacles, the Veterans Affairs Department expects to be ready for the October 24 deployment date its new electronic health records system.
Digital Government
GAO Issues Definitive List of Most Important Federal IT Acquisitions
The Government Accountability Office scored more than 100 federal IT projects and offered detailed breakdowns of the most “essential mission-critical IT acquisitions.”
Modernization
Coast Guard Begins Deploying Pentagon’s New Electronic Health Records System
The service kicked off a deployment schedule that aims to have all land-based clinics using DOD’s MHS GENESIS by 2024.
Modernization
VA Launches New Patient Scheduling Tool as Part of Records Modernization Project
The resource will be unleashed enterprisewide down the line.
Modernization
VA Restarts Electronic Health Record Rollout
The initial deployment at a Spokane, Washington, medical center is now scheduled for October, while the new scheduling system will begin rolling out in August.
Policy
Trump Executive Order Aims to Make Some Pandemic-Induced Telehealth Expansions Permanent
The president's directive also targets improvements to rural health care.
Modernization
VA Wants a Veteran-Owned Business to Upgrade Wichita Facility’s IT Ahead of Health Records Rollout
The deployment of Veterans Affairs’ new electronic health record program has been on hold while the agency deals with COVID-19 but the agency wants to get Wichita’s infrastructure ready to roll.
Modernization
VA Wants to Automate Digitization of its 5-Mile-High Electronic Health Record Backlog
Veterans Affairs is looking to robotic process automation to help digitize its backlog and integrate with the new electronic health record platform.
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