More than 18 months after the Veterans Administration paused new deployments of its Oracle electronic health record system to make critical improvements to the EHR and improve patient safety at five VA health systems,…
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– Medtronic today announced that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a three-year contract for the deployment of nearly 100 additional GI Genius™ AI-powered endoscopy units across VA…
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House lawmakers pass a VA legislative package with its original EHR oversight requirements removed.
The originally submitted version would have increased Congressional oversight of the VA’s struggling Oracle Health implementation, which included requiring…
After 40 minutes of debate, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act on Monday night – but an original section that had dealt…
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced a proposal to eliminate telehealth copayments for veterans and establish a grant program to fund designated VA telehealth access points in non-VA facilities.WHY IT MATTERS
This week the…
Healthcare-focused data analytics company Glassbeam has signed an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) program to enhance VA real-time data and predictive analytics capabilities.HTM and Glassbeam engineers will work…
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Veterans Health Administration employees allegedly accessed the medical records of vice presidential nominees Ohio Senator J.D. Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in July and August.”We reported to law enforcement allegations that [Veterans Affairs]…
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Healthcare providers continue to adopt AI at a rapid rate, with a majority reporting that they have increased their tech spending over the past year.
The new generation of healthcare AI innovation is promising, but…
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The Veterans Administration’s Office of Inspector General conducted a new audit to determine whether the VA and Oracle Health had sufficient controls in place to prevent, respond to and mitigate the impact of major…
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A new report from the VA OIG finds that the VA’s Oracle Health-based EHR that has been implemented at six facilities experienced 826 major performance incidents between October 2020 and March 2024.
Over…
