Military Health news and information

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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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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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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Roger Baker, the man who steered the Veteran Affairs Department's healthcare information technology development program toward an open-source model, is resigning.
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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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I've written about plans to scrap the Veterans Affairs Department's VistA electronic health-record system and replace I've written before about plans to scrap the Veterans Affairs Department's VistA electronic health-record system and replace it with a whole new EHR system built from scratch,...
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U.S. veterans can now view processing times for each phase of their medical claims through enhancements the U.S. Veterans Affairs and Defense departments have made to a joint web portal that provides information on military and veterans' benefits.
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There is only a brief mention of Chuck Hagel in the unofficial history of the Veteran Affairs Department's venerable VistA electronic health-record system, but comrades in arms, even in a fight to develop a computer software system, have long memories.
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Sometime before the end of March, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology will be releasing new tools to help providers wanting to digitize the process of obtaining patient consent before releasing their medical records to regional or statewide health information...
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