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House panel marks $344M for Defense-VA EHR
By Ashok Selvam | May 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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Pentagon blames UnitedHealth for failures under contract
By Bloomberg.com | May 03, 2013
The Pentagon rebuked UnitedHealth Group, the nation's largest insurer, after military families began experiencing long delays getting medical-care referrals from the company.
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Hagel mulls putting Defense Dept. on VistA
By Joseph Conn | April 19, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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Okla. VA uses telehealth to reach more vets
By Oklahoma City Sentinel | April 10, 2013
To increase access for veteran healthcare, the Oklahoma City Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) is now using Telehealth technology through the use of secure telecommunications and videoconferencing.
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Pentagon struggles with high cost of healthcare
By Associated Press | April 08, 2013
The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program — the military's health care system.
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Budget calls for spending increase at VA
By Associated Press | April 08, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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Tricare patients struggle to find private docs, GAO says
By Ashok Selvam | April 04, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Despite Tricare's ballooning costs, military personnel and their dependents not enrolled in the Pentagon's managed healthcare plan struggle to find private physicians, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
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Blog: Dear Jon Stewart
By Joseph Conn | April 01, 2013
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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Outliers: App offers military providers new coping tool
By Modern Healthcare | March 30, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Providers in the Military Health System who are feeling the pressure of caring for our wounded warriors now have one more tool to help them cope.
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Sequester cuts manageable for not-for-profits, ratings firms say
By Beth Kutscher | March 28, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Like their investor-owned counterparts, not-for-profit hospitals are expected to weather the impact of sequestration, but that doesn't mean the belt-tightening will be easy.
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