News 5/22/24 – HIStalk
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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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News 5/17/24 – HIStalk
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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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Senators call for new VA oversight provisions in Oracle contract review
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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Monday Morning Update 4/22/24 – HIStalk
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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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VA Secretary: Oracle Health EHR rollout to resume in 2025
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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EHR deployment at Lovell FHCC is first joint DOD-VA rollout
Leidos’ Partnership for Defense Health announced the deployment of MHS-Genesis, the U.S. Defense Department’s Federal Electronic Health Record system, at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (Lovell FHCC) in Chicago.The deployment…
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OIG Report | Scheduling Error in VA’s EHR Leads to Fatal Consequences
Unveiling opportunities amidst challenges, this report illuminates pathways for elevating veteran healthcare through collaborative efforts and proactive measures. Delving into the ramifications of a scheduling error within the Veterans Administration’s electronic health record (EHR)…
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OIG: Scheduling error in VA’s EHR had dire consequences
The Veterans Administration’s Office of Inspector General released a report recently, following an investigation into a scheduling error in the new Oracle electronic health record at VA Central Ohio Healthcare System in Columbus that…
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OIG: VA EHR system issues have led to patient harm, one patient death
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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Four Steps to Success in Implementing AI Within Healthcare Organizations | Healthcare IT Today
The following is a guest article by Ben Cushing, Chief Architect of Health and Life Sciences at Red Hat
Artificial intelligence (AI) is showing up in more healthcare contexts, from drug discovery to diagnostic imaging…