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EHR slip up blocks veteran's deployment
The Department of Veterans Affairs inappropriately disclosed part of a progress note in a veteran's treatment record to the Department of Defense, leading a DoD physician to determine that the
VA shuts access to DoD medical records after data errors
Health information interoperability efforts between the Veterans Health Administration and the Military Health System suffered another setback, as the Department of Veterans Affairs cut off access to
Obama budget calls for more funding for ONC, comparative effectiveness
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology would get a $17 million funding boost, to a total of $78 million, under the Obama administration's budget proposal for fiscal
Military EMR efforts aside, open-source technology still an unknown
Color me cynical, but I usually assume that progress in a fast-moving industry like technology isn't going to be driven by the military. After all--meaning no disrespect to the capable folks in
Obama plans longitudinal EMR for veterans
The Obama Administration announced last week that it will be rolling out an EMR for veterans that will contain all of their clinical and administrative information from the moment of enlistment to
Army rolls out speech recognition
The Army Medical Department is rolling out speech recognition technology in a big way as part of an effort to boost its clinicians' satisfaction with the military's electronic medical record system.
DoD launches personal health record with Microsoft, Google
Well, the personal health record (PHR) has officially become mainstream when the U.S. Department of Defense embraces it. The DoD, which apparently had its own PHR in place previously, is leveraging
DOD, VA move to SOA architecture to build interoperable systems
After struggling for years to bring their clinical databases together, the Department of Defense and the Veterans Affairs department have decided to move their EMR systems over to a service-oriented
VA, Defense share interoperable health data
For years, observers have criticized the health IT staff at the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs Department for having achieved so little in the way of interconnecting their patient care
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> Aetna plans to launch personal online health tools.
