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VA issues first contract for EMR integration with Pentagon
Following several delays and the revelation that an obscure office without a permanent director was in charge of integrating medical records between the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments, the... Read more...
VistA is powerful, but is it adaptable?
The lead in a Federal Computer Week story pretty well sums up the conundrum: "Is VistA a diva in disguise?" The open-source EMR at the heart of the Department of Veterans Affairs' health IT strategy... Read more...
VA, Kaiser to test EMR data sharing in San Diego
The two largest health systems in America are joining together to test clinical data interchange over the fledgling Nationwide Health Information Network. As part of a pilot announced with much... Read more...
Texas VA EMR failure blamed on aging infrastructure
A system failure at the Veterans Affairs North Texas Healthcare System in March was symptomatic of outdated infrastructure and poor maintenance, according to a report from the VA's Office of... Read more...
Social Security to join VA, DoD interoperability effort
The Social Security Administration will start sharing electronic health information with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs early next year to help expedite claims processing for... Read more...
Privacy called central to winning converts to EMRs
Last week, we called the fact that CMS has no permanent administrator the elephant in the room and several other clichés. Well, there's another elephant or 800-pound gorilla or what-have-you... Read more...
VistA once again held up as an example of an EMR success
Lest anyone forget, there's a huge organization right here in the good old U.S. of A. that has been quite successful with an enterprise-wide EMR implementation for several years: the Department of... 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...
