U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs news and information

Federal and state agencies are working to make it easier for veterans to move into nursing careers as the U.S. winds down its presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The House Appropriations Committee this week marked $344 million for the development of an electronic health-record system that would allow the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments to share the same information.
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David Elyard, a health IT coordinator in West Virginia's bureau of behavior health and health facilities, drove the winding roads of his mountainous state last week to trouble-shoot the launch of the computerized laboratory information module being added onto the predominately open-source VistA...
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“Pentagon struggles with high cost of healthcare” contains many misrepresentations and untruths. “The cost of military healthcare has almost tripled since 2001” is misleading in that the reported...
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Congress this week that he is investigating the possibility of switching the military's health records to the Veteran Administration's VistA to deal with long-running interoperability issues between the two systems.
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Regarding “Dear John Stewart,” I work in Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, the first merged naval hospital and VA hospital. We have to use HLTA, CPRS, CHCS, and VistA...
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Personal information belonging to more than 7,400 veterans in South Carolina may have been compromised when a laptop was stolen in February from the William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, S.C.
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President Barack Obama's budget proposal will include nearly a 14% spending increase for the section of the Veterans Affairs Department responsible for attacking a growing backlog of disability claims—a problem that officials warned is likely to worsen in coming months.
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Before the release of the omnibus privacy rule earlier his year, or passage of the more stringent privacy provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or even the main federal health information privacy law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, there...
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I'm a huge fan of your “Daily Show,” but last week, with your segment, “The Red Tape Diaries,” you and your staff waded into the swamps of health information technology, made more dense and impenetrable by the Defense and Veterans Affairs bureaucracies.
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