Former VA Official: Obamacare Puts Vets At Risk
The Affordable Care Act -- generally known as “Obamacare” -- could lead to increased health complications, emergency room visits and even shorter life spans for some veterans, according to a former...
View ArticleDon’t Expect Defense And VA Health Records To Share Data Anytime Soon
Veterans Affairs Department Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told reporters in a press call on Thursday that officials halted the effort to develop an integrated electronic health record after...
View ArticleDoD, VA's Health IT Efforts Grow Out Of Leadership, Necessity
The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are preparing to release a new request for proposals under their integrated electronic health records (iEHR) initiative, a move that will represent the...
View ArticleDoD, VA Reassure Congress Of Continued Growth Of Health Data Sharing
Defense and Veterans Affairs department officials are reassuring House lawmakers that just because they are developing separate electronic health systems, it doesn't mean the two departments aren't...
View ArticleDOD, VA Pressed On Creating Electronic Medical Records
Lawmakers on Wednesday lamented stagnation in creating lifelong electronic medical records for troops and veterans, decrying a lack of leadership on the issue from the Defense Department, the...
View ArticleDOD, VA Officials Defend Progress In Rare Joint Hearing
Amid criticism of deficient leadership, officials from the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs on July 10 reiterated their commitment to an electronic health records-sharing program during a...
View ArticleDirectTrust Delivers Interoperable Messaging To Healthcare
The nonprofit industry alliance DirectTrust hopes its voluntary accreditation and audit program, digital certificates, and relationship with the federal government will encourage more health...
View ArticleDid Jon Stewart Foil the Pentagon's Health Records Plan?
I’m picking up strong signals that the Military Health System abruptly scrapped plans to upgrade its electronic health record -- the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application, or AHLTA --...
View ArticleDefense And VA To Congress On Health Records: It's The Data, Not The Software
Top officials at the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments said Wednesday they will create a system to exchange standard clinical health data, which will allow the departments to develop a single,...
View ArticleCongress Probes Mental Health Services At VA
Mental health services at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) don't seem to be improving despite increases of nearly 40% in both staff and budget in the last 6 years, a congressional committee...
View ArticleCommittee Skeptical Of Extra VA Funding, Citing Ballooning Staff Size
Members of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee expressed reluctance today to approve a $17.6 billion Veterans Affairs supplemental funding request for additional clinical staff and expanded...
View ArticleBudget Plan Gives VA Big Funding Boost For Veterans Care
The Veterans Affairs Department does not appear to be feeling the pinch of fiscal austerity in President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal: The White House has proposed a 10.2 percent boost in funding for...
View ArticleAs VA Backlog Grows, Congress, Veterans Grow Weary Of Excuses
With most veterans waiting nine months for the Department of Veterans Affairs to process disability claims, a congressional panel Wednesday chastised the VA and the Department of Defense for each...
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ApacheCon 2020 features Natural Language Processing for Electronic Medical...
Apache Software Foundation September 21, 2020Original URLApacheCon, the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the world's largest Open Source foundation, announced today...
View ArticleVA Stops Releasing Data On Injured Vets As Total Reaches Grim Milestone...
The United States has likely reached a grim but historic milestone in the war on terror: 1 million veterans injured from the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. But you haven't heard this reported...
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