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Written by Mary Stevens
To move the Nationwide Health Information Exchange (NHIN) from a set of broad policies to production systems, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) must translate strategy into operational actions, according to Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at ONC. Fridsma made his comments during a presentation with Arien Malec, coordinator for the NHIN Direct, ONC.
Rep. Niki Tsongas of Massachusetts introduced this week the Improving Veterans’ Electronic Transition Services Act (iVETS Act) to encourage the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to create an internet-based portal for veterans to access their records and benefits information electronically.
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have selected 15 pilot communities for wide-scale use of health IT through the Beacon Community program, with awards totaling $220 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Written by Mary Stevens
BOSTON--The Office of Nursing Services (ONS) at the Department of Veterans Affairs is developing an inter-agency standards-based catalog of terms to drive data use, re-use and sharing. And now this effort is at the tipping point, said Murielle Beene, MBA, RN, chief nursing informatics officer at the ONS; and Diane Bedecarre, MS, RN-BC, during a session at the recent ANIA/CARING conference.
As part of the Continuing Extension Act of 2010, passed Thursday in the Senate, the legislators voted to amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) definition to include a professional in an inpatient or emergency room setting.
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.
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The Department of Defense's Defense Health Information Management System provides one of the largest—and most comprehensive—electronic health records in the world. Subsequently, the DHIMS has experienced several challenges and learned many lessons during the implementation process.
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 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 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).
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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.
Computer scientists from Kansas State University (KSU) are in the process of developing tools to strengthen the security of information systems, including those that hold patient medical records and other sensitive information.
InSite One was awarded the Theatre Image Repository project from the Integrated Clinical Systems Program Management Office of the Department of Defense.
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).
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Communications and IT company Harris announced this week it has acquired health IT company Patriot Technologies.
Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Delaware in Newark have received a grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) to create a 3D patient imaging system that will allow surgeons to view and touch selected organs and tissues prior to surgery.
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.
The federal raid by agents from the Department of Defense (DoD) on Siemens Healthcare's facility in Malvern, Pa., appears to stem from a whistleblower lawsuit regarding the company's pricing of medical imaging equipment in contracts with the federal government.
MALVERN, Pa.—The criminal investigation arm of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) raided Siemens Healthcare's offices in Malvern, Pa., this morning to secure workstations, and seek out records related to several military contracts.
President Barack Obama announced plans Thursday to create a joint virtual lifetime electronic record that will improve care and services to transitioning veterans by easing the flow of medical records between the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs administrations.
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“We’re beginning a revolution the way information is collected, managed, used and purposed for patients in the U.S. healthcare system,” said David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in opening remarks at an audioconference training session on meaningful use and EHR certification last week.
In Part 1 of our closer look at the final rules for meaningful use and EHR certification standards, CMIO’s Jeff Byers spoke with David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In Part 2, CMIOs weigh in with mixed reviews.
The framework for meaningful use is “something that had to be done and has been started intelligently,” John P. Glaser, PhD, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare System told CMIO. However, the challenges of becoming meaningful users and optimizing health information exchange will require unprecedented levels of communication within organizations and among healthcare systems, he said.
The contractual obligations in the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules under the HITECH Act for business associates and downstream entities are game changers, according to Amy S. Leopard, JD, from Walter and Haverfield, during a webinar sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Standardizing performance measures, with the help of health IT, will make it possible to collect the right data at the right time to support performance measurement, clinical decision support, clinical research and quality improvement, said Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF) during a webinar hosted by the forum on June 17.