U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs news and information

The Institute of Medicine has added one more voice to what has been a chorus of critics, advisers and federal officials calling for improved interoperability between the record-keeping systems of the medical services of the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
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The Veterans Affairs Department has suppressed and manipulated data that would support claims from Iraq, Afghanistan and Persian Gulf veterans that they've contracted illnesses from environmental pollution while serving in these areas, a high-level whistle-blower told a House Veterans Affairs panel...
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As a 30+ year veteran of the Veterans Affairs Department's VistA system and an Air Force veteran, I totally agree with your reporter (“The right and wrong decision,”) that...
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An Army report released Friday finds the service still has trouble diagnosing and treating soldiers for post-traumatic stress disorder, despite more than doubling its number of military and civilian behavioral health workers over the past five years.
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Roger Baker, who steered the Veteran Affairs Department's healthcare information technology development program toward an open-source model, is resigning. Since 2009, Baker has been an assistant secretary in the department with duties comparable to those of a chief information officer for...
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The Defense Department and the Veterans Affairs Department are budgeted to burn through $758 million during the current fiscal year to integrate their healthcare operations' various electronic health-record systems, and the soaring costs of that interoperability project led both departments to...
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The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments' history of problems with program management and accountability as they try to share health information “raises concerns” about the departments' recent decision to integrate records from their separate systems, the Government Accountability...
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Joe Carlson's interview with outgoing Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz (“Championing consumers,”) repeated one of the chairman's favorite catchphrases, “pay-for-delay,” in the...
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Outliers was a little puzzled last week when we read that the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden was without healthcare after leaving the service last fall after 16 years.
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Cardiologist Dr. Lewis Coulson, a Veterans Health Administration physician for the past 42 years, works with one of the best electronic health information systems in the world—the VA's VistA.
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