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HIMSS names advisory panel for Government Health IT Conference
May 20, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Industry luminaries including Aneesh Chopra and Roger Baker to help shape the program's content and featured tracks.
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Commentary: How data sharing between AHLTA and VistA is possible
May 17, 2013 |
Michael J. Luby
Despite the frustration and the jokes around iEHR, real data exchange is happening between the DoD and VA and the potential to build on that for the future resides in creatively using resources built in the past.
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Bipartisan bill would slash iEHR funding
May 16, 2013 |
Erin McCann
Saying that the proposed legislation would address "the failure of DoD and VA to develop a single unified medical record," one of the bill's backers explains that it would require VA and DoD to prove they are implementing a plan for that single medical record.
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HIX, Medicaid expansion offer Veterans new options
May 8, 2013 |
Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org

Many former service members have access to health care through the VA, private insurance or other programs. But having so many choices can also lead to fragmented care.
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Vets file class action over VA breach
May 3, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
Two veterans in South Carolina have filed a class action lawsuit against the VA stemming from a February breach, arguing that it would have been preventable with encryption.
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Lawmakers push Hagel on DoD-VA interoperability
April 17, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
As news of backlogs in veterans benefits continues to make headlines, lawmakers are pushing for answers on digital information exchange from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel -- who frankly described problems in the plans and cancelled an RFP, saying he'd have clarification plans soon.
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Senate committee questions Shinseki's VA budget request
April 16, 2013 |
Erin McCann
VA Secretary Eric Shinseki submitted the agency's 2014 budget, a request that was met with concerns from members of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs.
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Vets mostly found benefits in PHRs, study finds
April 11, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
In a focus group, veterans who had access to a variety of their healthcare data cited improved communications with their providers and improved self-management.
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VHA, NHS trade tips on IT, telehealth
March 27, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
The U.K.'s NHS and the VHA are both looking to digital health tools to improve care for aging patients managing chronic conditions. The U.K. think tank 2020health hopes the two systems can learn from each other.
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Vets may face insurance gaps without Medicaid expansion
March 26, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
Urban Institute researchers estimate that about half of the nation's 1.3 million uninsured veterans could remain without coverage in states that don't expand Medicaid.
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Humetrix to demo UK version of iBlueButton to NHS
March 14, 2013 |
Mike Miliard
The forthcoming localized version will enable UK citizens to download and share personal health record data with providers.
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OIG: VA sending unencrypted patient data
March 7, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
The VA's Office of the Inspector General has found VA medical centers sending patient data unencrypted over the Internet and potentially exposing IP addresses, amid an apparent delay in IT security implementation.
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Accelerate Healthcare Reform with Information Technology
January 17, 2013 | White Papers
The current agenda is clear: wherever possible, reduce costs and improve quality-of-care services. These directives are in perfect alignment with the role of virtual and cloud computing infrastructure technologies, which help to lower costs and increase clinician productivity while future-proofing IT investments. As healthcare reform deadlines rapidly approach, choosing the right information technology (IT) platform will be critical to the success or failure of new services and exchanges. It will determine the ease or di!culty of updating existing applications and managing new ones. It will also serve as a foundation to help ensure that all healthcare services are secure, accessible and easy enough for citizens to access and use.
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Easier Ways for PACS/RIS End Users to Manage Applications and Desktop Environments
January 17, 2013 | White Papers
This report provides information on some of the challenges PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and RIS (Radiology Information System) end-users face in the healthcare space, and how virtualization and point of care solutions can help address those challenges. In this paper, we discuss what the challenges are and present a strategy of utilizing architecture for PACS/RIS client access, which supports the needs of end users and makes it easier for IT staff to manage applications and desktop environments.
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Your Cloud in Healthcare - How to Use the Cloud to Achieve Greater Business Agility
January 17, 2013 | White Papers
The healthcare sector is adopting enterprise hybrid cloud across the provider, payer, and life sciences segments with the goal of improving the quality of care, reducing costs, and increasing responsiveness to risk. This industry brief goes over some results of the CIO Global Cloud Computing Adoption Study, a recent survey by IDG Research, and outlines the common hybrid cloud use cases for healthcare organizations. It also details a real-world example of how cloud computing is being used to achieve greater business agility.
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Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it
October 11, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.
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The Power of User Virtualization: Meeting Meaningful Use, Optimizing IT and Clinical Productivity
August 23, 2011 | White Papers
Transformative changes such as healthcare reform mandates, advanced stages of meaningful use criteria and conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets require healthcare providers’ IT assets to be flexible, scalable and interoperable in order to respond. Learn how user virtualization provides the ability to react quickly while improving user experience and operational efficiency.
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VMware View for Healthcare: Improve Clinician Workflow
August 5, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
VMware View streamlines desktop and application management, accelerates provisioning and improves security through centralization, resulting in an immediately accessible, always available desktop for healthcare providers. VMware View enables healthcare organizations to quickly respond to changing needs while reducing cost and complexity.
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How cloud computing enhances care in the 'golden hour'
April 5, 2013 |
Lt. Col. Jose Albino (Ret.)

With quick access to patient information, including medical, imaging and health informatics data, doctors can improve care in combat zones.
VA offers DoD a helping hand
April 1, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe
Is there an added layer of consideration within the DoD’s desire to provide its constituents with the best service possible, just as any other business wants to serve its customers?
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
March 1, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Imagine: A physician fresh from med school walking into an MS-DOS clinic while streaming Spotify on an Android device. Inconceivable?
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
February 22, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
A new hashtag, VA CIO and CTO announce plans to leave, a Medicaid surprise in Florida, and tips for HIT recruitment and retention.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
February 8, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
The leaning of CMS and ONC, EHR confidence men, and did anyone really think that the DoD and VA would get to iEHR, on budget and time?
Why HIE hinges on terminology standards
February 4, 2013 |
Viet Nguyen, MD
That the industry needs standards to facilitate the flow of data is widely understood. It's figuring out what those should be that's proving to be difficult.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
November 16, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
The campaigns long shadow over the elections. What would have happened to meaningful use and ONC had Romney won? HIX delay. And DoD, VA efforts to improve care for their patients.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
September 28, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
Surprising poll findings, Kerry's MITCH and integrated care, proposed mobile office at FDA, HIE disaster planning, Obama and Romney face off in NEJM, and a hole in the ACO model.
Treating organizational ills via patient-centered care
September 6, 2012 |
Dr. Andrew Ritcheson
Dr. Andrew Ritcheson explains how federal health agencies, such as MHS and the VA, can harness a patient-centered approach to improve their organizations.
With eHealth Exchange, we are entering new era of HIE
September 4, 2012 |
Brian Ahier
The NwHIN Exchange, under a new name, continues to take shape and move closer to its goal of being a sustainable public-private health information exchange.
Electronic data breaches fade from VA security reports
August 7, 2012 |
Mary Mosquera
VA has fixed so many gaps in securing electronic health information that data breaches via technology have all but disappeared.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
August 3, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
A visit to Hawaii's Beacon community, bridging private and public health to bolster care for veterans, VA and DoD mobile app for PTSD, and not your grandma's Medicaid.