U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs news and information

The Veterans Affairs Department led the nation in digitizing medical records, giving employees access to health and financial records with a few keystrokes. An analysis of reports filed with the VA's Risk Management and Incident Response Resolution Team found a pattern of illegal snooping through...
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Veterans Affairs Department physicians told a House subcommittee Thursday that hospital administrators regularly pressured them to prescribe highly addictive narcotic painkillers to patients, even those they had not personally examined.
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The Defense Department's on-again, off-again flirtation with the Veterans Affairs Department's VistA electronic health-record system appears to be on again. But this time, a lot of other suitors will compete for the military's affection and what likely will be billions of taxpayers' dollars.
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Three winners will split more than $3 million in prize money offered by the Veterans Affairs Department to upgrade the scheduling software module of its VistA electronic health-record system.
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The Veterans Affairs Department has warned that the government shutdown will reverse its progress on lowering the backlog of disability claims.
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In the old days, injured veterans returning from combat in World War II thought nothing of staying three or four men to a hospital room when they arrived stateside to begin post-war life.
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The Veterans Affairs secretary will convene a commission to recommend a new director for the healthcare system that treats more than 6 million veterans.
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The federally initiated Blue Button movement for patient data sharing was front and center at the Consumer Health IT Summit that kicked off National Health IT Week in Washington on Monday.
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In 2012, more American soldiers died by suicide than in direct combat. A year later, healthcare and IT researchers working with the Veterans Affairs Department are looking to use natural language processing to mine electronic health-record systems for telltale signs of soldiers at clear risk for...
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Eight out of 10 healthcare providers working in the Veterans Health Administration, the healthcare arm of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, received some form of pay-for-performance bonuses totaling $150 million in 2011. But a federal watchdog agency found no written criteria for the bonuses...
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