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Adopting e-health records could cost more than anticipated
Analyst predicts that equipping providers with electronic systems could be more than double the amount set aside in the Recovery Act.
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Bad Budget News for FCS?
The Senate Budget Committee squirreled away $2.37 billion in the $3.5 trillion fiscal 2010 federal budget for the next generation Air Force aerial refueling tanker -- the only Defense Department project that the Senate allocated a separate funding line to in the entire bill.
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Congress funds Defense acquisition reforms in fiscal 2010 budget
Bills include large increases for acquisition workforce and call for paring back outsourcing program management work to contractors.
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Qwest Network Up for Grabs?
The Wall Street Journal <a href=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123861451489479349.html>reported</a> on Thursday that Qwest wants to sell its long-distance network, which the company uses to carry traffic for its traffic for the General Services Administration's Networx contract and for the Defense Department.
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Eight years in the making, VA patient scheduling system founders
Congressman calls hearing to look into failures with $167 million IT project.
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Nuke Simulation on the 'Net?
Because the United Sates no longer sets off nuclear bombs to test their powers (it's not environmentally green at all), the National Nuclear Security Administration uses supercomputers at its national laboratories to simulate a really big bang.
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VA IT Problems: How Many More?
I reported today on the suspension of a botched, eight-year effort to develop a new patient appointment scheduling application at the Veterans Affairs Department, and I have a hunch that is just one of potentially many VA IT projects in real trouble.
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VA program to schedule patient appointments on verge of collapse
Failure of the overdue application, a core piece of a new medical system, angers veterans groups and has officials worried about a reaction from the Hill and White House.
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The Army Got It Right
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. - Reporters are known as cynics and cranks (that's what my friends in the public affairs shops in the Pentagon tell me) so I'm going to run against the trend. The folks from the White Sands Missile Range, the New Mexico National Guard and the Reserve Officer Training Corps who ran the Bataan Memorial Death March at the Missile Range did the Army proud.
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One Tough Hike for Bataan
I'm headed down to the White Sands Missile Range this weekend for the annual <a href=http://www.bataanmarch.com/>Bataan Memorial Death March</a>, which commemorates the 1942 event in the Philippines when 10,000 U.S. and Filipino troops were literally marched to death by the Japanese Army en route to Prisoner of War camps. Another 10,000 escaped and 50,000 barely survived the 70 mile jungle slog.
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VA's health record system cited as model for a national network
Health specialists say the veterans medical system could be a low-cost solution to the problem of incompatibility among networks nationwide.
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A Sneak Preview of an AHLTA Interface
Military clinicians really hate the interface for the Defense Department's AHLTA (<a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/03/ahlta_maybe_not_a_noun.php>maybe not a noun</a>) electronic health record system.
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The NGEN Feeding Frenzy Begins
The Navy will hold an Industry Day on March 31 to discuss how it plans to transition from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet run by EDS to its <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/03/gauss_to_run_navy_ngen_acquisi.php>Next Generation Enterprise Network</a>, a <a href=http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=39351&ref=rellink>massive deal</a> potentially worth as much as $10 billion.
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AHLTA, Maybe Not a Noun
Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Ark., seems as confused as I am on how AHLTA, the name for the Defense Department's electronic health record system, has morphed from an acronym into a noun.
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Officials criticize Defense's 'unreliable' health record system
The services' surgeon generals tell the Hill that the medical network frequently crashes and is causing a 'near mutiny' among doctors.
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