As of March 1, all access to electronic Department of Defense (DoD) records through the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) computerized patient record system (CPRS) remote data view (RDV) and VistAWeb was disabled due to the potential for incorrect or incomplete display of DoD patient medical records when using VA’s CPRS RDV or VistAWeb functions, according to a patient safety alert published by the VA Central Office issued March 3.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has posted a digital dashboard Web site for public viewing to provide transparency into the department’s cost, schedule and overall performance of IT projects.
The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) interoperability efforts continue but the interagency program needs to implement improvements, according to a January report by the General Accountability Office (GAO).
Representatives of the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center have rejected claims by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that the center committed eight regulatory violations in connection with a series of brachytherapy treatments for prostate cancer in which patients received incorrect radiation doses.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and healthcare nonprofit organization Kaiser Permanente recently announced a pilot program designed to exchange electronic health record information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended earned value management (EVM) techniques be employed in order to coordinate a fragmented IT system acquisition process across the federal government.
Last night, President Barack Obama made his healthcare reform speech to Congress, adamantly expressing his determination to be the final U.S. president to take up this cause.
Six additional veteran patients received incorrect doses of radiation during brachytherapy treatment for prostate cancer at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, raising questions about whether still more cases are yet to be discovered in the ongoing investigation, according to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The pen-and-paper workarounds employed by healthcare providers who use an EMR system may help make EMRs even more useful, according to research in the September issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) could receive $3.31 billion to spend on IT in 2010, an increase of 30 percent over the agency's 2009 budget, under a bill approved Monday by the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is searching for a contractor to re-engineer the administration’s Computerized Patient Record System interface and workflow to allow tracking and reporting of critical diagnostic test alerts and follow-up actions taken by providers.
The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have requested a combined $2.8 billion for health IT projects in the 2011 federal budget. The Department of Defense (DoD) is asking for $1.5 billion while the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is asking for $1.3 billion.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente recently launched a pilot medical data exchange program in San Diego enabling clinicians from VA and Kaiser Permanente to obtain views of a patient's health using EHR information through the National Health Information Network.
Although an investigation of 124 Veteran Affairs' (VA) hospitals revealed that the quality of care had significantly improved over the past decade, discrepancies of care still exist within certain segments, including minorities, gender and those with mental disorders, according to the 2009 Department of VA hospital quality report.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), in a report issued last week, charged the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center with eight violations relating to a series of bungled brachytherapy treatments for prostate cancer in which 98 men received incorrect radiation doses.
Abnormal results on outpatient imaging tests sometimes may not receive timely follow-up even when clinicians receive and read results in an advanced, integrated EMR system, according to a study in the Sept. 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
The failure of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) replacement scheduling application development program is part of a pattern of larger agency system problems related to the implementation and management of IT projects, according to a report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has reported that VistA Imaging, the medical and healthcare imaging system used in VA medical centers, attained more than one billion stored images in January.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will temporarily halt 45 IT projects which are either behind schedule or over budget. The projects will be reviewed, and the agency will determine whether they will be continued.
More than 60 percent of all bankruptcies in the United States in 2007 were driven by medical incidents. In an article to be published in the August issue of the American Journal of Medicine, the results of a U.S. random-sample survey of bankruptcy filers shows that illnesses and medical bills contribute to a large and increasing share of bankruptcies.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.