2011 Gov 2.0 Year in Review
...If you look back at a January interview with Clay Johnson on key trends for Gov 2.0 and open government in 2011, some of his predictions bore out. The House of Representatives did indeed compete...
View Article2 Winners Named For ONC's Blue Button App Challenges
A California-based developer of mobile technology tools and a Virginia-based provider of communications solutions for care providers have been named the winners of two Blue Button app competitions...
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11 Things About Health Care I'm Dying to Redesign
The folks at Ideo recently published 19 Things We're Dying to Redesign, covering a wide range of products, services, and systems, both big and small. It's very thought-provoking, but only one of them...
View Article10 Questions For Obama’s Chief Technology Officer
[Todd Park's] role has taken on heightened importance after several recent developments, including the implementation of the new health care law, efforts to reduce the backlog in Department of Veterans...
View Article'Blue Button' Technology May Give You More Control Of Your Health Information
Get a group of tech-savvy physicians and electronic medical records experts in a room, ask them about the way forward, and the subject of the Blue Button is sure to come up.Read more in the full...
View Article"What Systems Work In Healthcare And Why?" Is Focus Of 19th Annual Health...
ECRI Institute November 2, 2012Original URLToday’s healthcare systems face escalating challenges as they aggregate into larger and more complex health systems that are vertically and horizontally...
View ArticleWhat Is OSEHRA And VistA?
According to the oral history of the Department of Veterans Affairs, of which I have been an attentive listener over the years, once upon a time, innovation ruled the land. VistA, the legendary...
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...
View ArticleVA Claims Backlog Saddles Disabled Veterans
Department of Veterans Affairs officials say they want to end their massive benefits backlog for disabled veterans by next year, but a new study says progress on the initiative has stalled.Read more in...
View ArticleHow Data And Communities Are Changing Health Care
The open source model is tremendously powerful, and it’s something VA understood when it created VistA. The next chapter will see the user-driven super community, OSEHRA, powered by data and the OSS...
View ArticleHaving Already Failed Once, DoD Snubs Open Source For Second EMR Try
In theory, the VA now has everything it needs to standardize and upgrade the open source VistA EMR, especially after forming the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) organization. But...
View ArticleDoD Electronic Health Records Help VA Disability Claims
Department of Defense (DoD) February 6, 2014Original URLThe Defense Department has made troops’ health records electronically available to the Veterans Affairs Department to speed up the adjudication...
View ArticleChina Has Repeatedly Hacked Veterans Affairs Databases Since 2010, Lawmaker...
Since 2010, foreign actors have repeatedly compromised an unencrypted database maintained by the Veterans Affairs Department that contains personally identifiable information on roughly 20 million...
View ArticleAudit: DOD E-Health Timeline 'Not Realistic'
The Pentagon inspector general doesn't think the DOD can reach initial operational capability of its new $9 billion, "state-of-the-art" electronic health records system by December. The Defense...
View Article"Another Walter Reed-Type Scandal"
Soldiers at the military hospital languished in part due to incompatible databases and dismal record keeping. Welcome to the Pentagon's $20 billion medical-records boondoggle.Read more in the full...
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