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– The Department of Veterans Affairs’ ambitious effort to modernize its electronic health record system (EHR) has hit the brakes, riddled with delays, cost overruns, and safety concerns, Nextgov reports.
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In 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense officially disclosed a set of ethical principles to guide the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies on future battlefields. Despite stark differences, there are core similarities between…
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The Department of Defense completes the last of 23 MHS Genesis go-live waves.
The military’s final Oracle Health implementation is scheduled for March 2024 at Lovell Federal Health Care Center, which it jointly…
By Hannah Nelson
November 22, 2023 – The Department of Defense (DoD) has nearly completed its Oracle Health EHR implementation, according to reporting from GovCIO Media & Research.
“We’re virtually complete with system deployment to what we call…
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Two senators ask the Department of Defense to explain how its MHS Genesis (Oracle Cerner) system has affected the time needed to get new military recruits into basic training.
The DoD says that medically…
Through a broad agency announcement about the Scaling Health Applications Research for Everyone solicitation, the U.S. Health and Human Services office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is seeking to adapt Department…
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By Hannah Nelson
June 15, 2023 – Officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are looking to health IT to enhance interoperability with non-VA providers, according to reporting from MeriTalk.
At a House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee…
At TechNet Cyber 2023 in Baltimore, Mark Gorak, principal director for resources and analysis for the Department of Defense’s deputy chief information officer, talked about the Pentagon’s massive cyber workforce shortage and its goal…
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By Hannah Nelson
April 28, 2023 – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) experienced a systemwide outage of its Oracle Cerner EHR earlier this week, according to reporting from Federal News Network.
The outage impacted the…
New funding from Congress’s Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies initiative will enable the Department of Defense Rapid Assessment of Threat Exposure project with additional investment based on its success in demonstrating…
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