VA CIO: Scheduling System Software Will Be Fielded By 2017, Not 2020
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to field a new, commercial patient scheduling system by 2017, not 2020 as it said in contract documents released Sept. 17, and reported by Nextgov last...
View ArticleVA CIO shares forthcoming open source contributions
Pledging “more motion and more outputs” of its own VistA developments, acting Veterans Affairs CIO Stephen Warren offered a glimpse of what the department is planning to turn over to the open source...
View ArticleVA CIO Lays out Open Source Strategy at OSEHRA Conference
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is launching a series of initiative to fully embrace and leverage its open source strategy, according to Stephen Warren, the Acting Chief Information...
View ArticleOSEHRA 2013 Summit Presentations - Now Available Online
The 2nd Annual Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) Summit & Workshop was held earlier this year in Bethesda, Maryland. All of the procedings from the Summit Conference &...
View ArticleOroville Hospital's CEO To Reveal Key EHR Success Factors At OSEHRA Conference
Oroville Hospital August 30, 2013Original URLRobert Wentz, President and CEO of Oroville Hospital, will be addressing the Plenary Session of the 2nd Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA)...
View ArticleOroville Hospital Named One of the Winners of the VA Medical Appointment...
Oroville Hospital October 4, 2013Original URLOroville Hospital was named one of the three winners of the innovation challenge issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help the agency...
View ArticleOpen Health Round-Up For 2014: Notable Articles, Reports, And Events
Even the hidebound field of health care can undergo a lot of change over the course of one year. Key health IT trends that I saw throughout 2014 are summarized in another article. Here I'll list some...
View ArticleObama Nomine Makes her Case to Take Over Tech at VA
LaVerne H. Council, the private-sector IT consultant and former Fortune 50 CIO who is President Barack Obama's pick to take over the Office of Information and Technology at the Department of Veterans...
View ArticleMun on the Extraordinary Growth of OSEHRA and the VistA EHR Community in 2014
We have recorded a robust year of growth during 2014 and have laid a solid foundation for market expansion in 2015. OSEHRA corporate membership doubled during 2014. Corporate Members include large,...
View ArticleJon Stewart Weighs in on Defense-VA E-Health Record Standoff
Stewart hammered home the lack of compatibility between AHLTA and VistA -- well known inside the Beltway -- to his national audience. “These two programs are unable to communicate with each other,”...
View ArticleDOD Cooperation Accelerating VA Claims Handling
Senior officials from the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs assured Congress July 10 that they are closing in on solutions that will alleviate the backlog of veterans' health benefit claims...
View ArticleDid Jon Stewart Foil the Pentagon's Health Records Plan?
I’m picking up strong signals that the Military Health System abruptly scrapped plans to upgrade its electronic health record -- the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application, or AHLTA --...
View ArticleCongress & GAO Take Aim At DOD-VA Health Records Program
When the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments last month announced a change of course in a long-awaited joint health records program, it sparked concerns at the Government Accountability Office....
View ArticleBefore Buying New Scheduling System, Va Plans To Kick The Tires
A request for proposal for the new scheduling system is “going to hit the street no later than" Nov. 21, VA Chief Information Officer Stephen Warren told reporters during a press call last week. The...
View ArticleChina Has Repeatedly Hacked Veterans Affairs Databases Since 2010, Lawmaker...
Since 2010, foreign actors have repeatedly compromised an unencrypted database maintained by the Veterans Affairs Department that contains personally identifiable information on roughly 20 million...
View Article28th VistA Community Meeting: VistA Community Coming Together
Years of efforts dedicated to unifying the VistA community as well as VistA code development effort bore fruit during the 28th VistA Community Meeting (VCM) on January 17-19 in Sacramento, CA. This...
View Article28th VistA Community Meeting to Feature Top VistA Leaders
Former VA CIO Roger Baker, Oroville Hospital CEO Robert Wentz, and the VA's current CIO, Stephen Warren, will be addressing the 28th Vista Community Meeting (VCM) in Sacramento, CA in what promises to...
View ArticleVA CIO shares forthcoming open source contributions
Pledging “more motion and more outputs” of its own VistA developments, acting Veterans Affairs CIO Stephen Warren offered a glimpse of what the department is planning to turn over to the open source...
View ArticleOSEHRA 2013: VA CIO Stephen Warren Lays out Open Source Strategy at the VA...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is launching a series of an initiative to fully embrace and leverage its open source strategy, according to Stephen Warren, the Acting Chief Information...
View ArticleOSEHRA 2013: Oroville Hospital CEO To Reveal Key Factors Behind their...
Oroville Hospital August 30, 2013Original URLRobert Wentz, President and CEO of Oroville Hospital, will be addressing the Plenary Session of the 2nd Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA)...
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