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'Way Ahead' architecture to serve as backbone for iEHR

New work on the enterprise architecture created for the joint integrated electronic health record effort of the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs will be based on work already completed by each department, according to a DoD  report . The Military Health System's "EHR Way Ahead" architecture will serve as the backbone for the iEHR EA. 

Faults in DoD's EHR cripple drug abuse tracking efforts

Medication documentation issues with the Department of Defense's electronic health record system are keeping doctors from successfully tracking drug use by soldiers, hindering their efforts to crack

Coast Guard to launch EHR system

The United States Coast Guard is getting ready to implement its new Integrated Health Information System (IHiS) and is actively seeking companies to provide services and materials to support it,

Preliminary iEHR to roll out in 2014

Medical facilities in San Antonio and Hampton Roads, Va., will launch a preliminary version of the integrated electronic health record created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the

Obama's 2013 budget keeps health IT spending nearly constant

The federal government isn't raising the amount it spends on health information technology by much in President Obama's fiscal year 2013 budget, according to an analysis by Andrea Falciani of Suss

VA suspends work on key component of joint EHR with DoD

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issued a stop-work order on a key component of the joint electronic health record that the VA is building with the Department of Defense (DoD), according to

VA budget recommendation includes allocation for DoD-integrated EHR

Roughly $2 billion of the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs' $3.3 billion IT budget, proposed this week, would be allocated toward healthcare systems, according to an article in Nextgov. Overall,

Federal agencies to go on a $6.5B health IT spending binge

Federal agencies will spend $6.5 billion on their own health IT needs in 2016, up from $4.5 billion in 2011, according to a new report from Deltek, a government IT contractor that operates a research

VA, DoD now can share more sensitive medical records

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is loosening a rule that unduly restricts it from sharing information about certain sensitive medical conditions with the Department of Defense (DoD),

DoD, VA will use service-oriented architecture in joint EHR

The ever-evolving, contentious effort to merge the electronic health records of the Department of Defense and the Veterans Affairs Department just took another step forward. Mark Goodge, chief