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Privacy breaches in VA health records wound veterans
By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 14, 2013
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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VA doctors tell of opiate pressures
By San Diego Union-Tribune | October 11, 2013
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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Defense Department's EHR plan may cost taxpayers billions
By Joseph Conn | October 04, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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 developers split $3M in prize money for VistA scheduling software
By Joseph Conn | October 04, 2013
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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VA warns disability claims progress 'at risk'
By Washington Post | October 03, 2013
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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VA looking for new health undersecretary
By Kevin Freking / Associated Press | September 20, 2013
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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Veterans, providers discuss mobile telehealth clinic
By Laramie (Wyo.) Boomerang | September 16, 2013
Air Force veteran Dianne Brown is a patient of the Cheyenne VA Medical Center Mobile Telehealth Clinic, Laramie, Wyo. The clinic exists to provide primary care and mental healthcare to “rural and highly rural veterans.” Like all veterans who work with providers at the mobile clinic,...
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VA building up its telehealth capabilities
By Stars and Stripes | July 31, 2013
Veterans Affairs Department health leaders showed off a wide range of remote medical offerings Tuesday at their first Connected Health Showcase, an event designed to highlight telehealth advances but also tout the department's place as a leader in cutting-edge healthcare delivery.
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Wennergren to retire from Defense Department
By Rachel Landen | July 24, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
David Wennergren, assistant deputy chief management officer for the Defense Department, has announced that he will retire from the position next month.
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Vt.'s U.S. Rep. says vets need better health records
By Associated Press via Boston.com | July 23, 2013
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said Monday he is co-sponsoring a bill that would require the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments to find a better way to share health information so veterans can have better access to their military health records.
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