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SPOTLIGHT: VA wants to track physician response to alerts
While the Department of Veterans Affairs has an advanced, integrated EMR with clinical decision support, the Computerized Patient Record System that makes up part of the Veterans Health Information... Read more...
Contracting questions could delay DoD-VA EMR integration by two years
A "potentially unethical" relationship between a federal employee and a government contractor is the reason for the delay of the integration of EMR systems at the Departments of Defense and Veterans... Read more...
VA finishes interoperability phase of DoD record integration
The Department of Veterans Affairs has finished the interoperability portion of its massive, three-stage effort with the Department of Defense to create a single, lifelong EHR for service members,... Read more...
Study: Nearly 20 percent of abnormal imaging result alerts ignored by docs
EMRs are supposed to improve communication and information flow, but to get the most out of the technology, doctors actually have to, you know, pay attention to their messages. They don't always do... Read more...
Military Health System extends two EMR support contracts
The Military Health System has extended two key contracts to support its Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) system, which the Pentagon calls the world's largest and most... Read more...
'JAMA' series attempts to bring EHRs back into reform discussion
It can't be said enough: EHRs alone won't fix healthcare. We got some more peer-reviewed ammunition behind this statement with a pair of articles in this week's Journal of the American Medical... Read more...
Pentagon EHR contract award under investigation
The Pentagon is investigating allegations by a Military Health System employee that the MHS improperly awarded a contract to a small but well-connected IT firm to help build an EHR system that is... Read more...
Some paper workarounds can enhance EMRs, study says
For years, we've been hearing about how a partial EMR implementation creates the need for dual electronic and paper systems, and we've always assumed that this scenario is highly inefficient. Well,... Read more...
Story claims proprietary EMRs could 'screw up' health reform
Washington Monthly, an influential magazine among left-leaning, inside-the-Beltway types, offers a bombshell of an indictment of major EMR vendors in its July cover story, provocatively titled, "Code... Read more...
VA, DoD will meet EMR interoperability deadline
The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs will have the "core capabilities" of a single, interoperable EMR in place by a Sept. 30 deadline, Government Health IT reports. Speaking at a... Read more...
