The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to award new contracts to two winners of this year’s AI Tech Sprint program, designed to help reduce the burden of clinical documentation.WHY IT MATTERS
The VA says it intends…
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded the second option period for its electronic health record modernization contract with Oracle Health. It’s an 11-month extension, “with an emphasis on improved fiscal and performance…
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When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration set to track COVID-19 vaccine deployment, it needed timely and robust information. Wanting the ability to scale, the FDA turned to next-generation exchange in the Fast Healthcare…
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Dr. Kaeli Yuen, the Veterans Affairs artificial intelligence product lead within the VA Office of Information and Technology’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, provided an update on the agency’s assessment of various AI…
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A Business Insider piece titled “Oracle’s deadly gamble” says that Oracle’s Larry Ellison had a vision that acquiring Cerner and then applying Oracle’s AI models to its data would create the EHR of…
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The House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees introduce legislation related to the VA’s implementation of Oracle Health:
Rollouts will be paused until the facilities that are live on the system “have recovered to return…
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With the Veterans Affairs electronic health records modernization contract up for its first of four annual renegotiations, senators serving on the VA Committee sent a letter to Tanya Bradsher, VA deputy secretary, pointing out that more mistakes…
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About Healthcare, which specializes in software for patient flow management across healthcare settings, acquires patient flow predictive analytics vendor Edgility.
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Denis McDonough, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, told the House VA Committee on Thursday that progress on the EHR Program RESET Act of 2023 – first introduced a year ago – will help address some…
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By Hannah Nelson
March 25, 2024 – A system error in the new Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) EHR contributed to the accidental overdose of a patient in 2022, according to a VA Office of Inspector…
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