EHRs

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Deputy Secretary Remy details next steps of EHR rollout, emphasizing patient safety and improved governance.

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Leaders across VA address how they are focusing on efficiency to provide all veterans with their full benefits.

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With the Department of Veterans Affairs' deputy secretary confirmation, Donald Remy will step into a role that will lead the agency's next phases of its Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs is prioritizing diversity and developing new training programs to increase support for women and minorities across the workforce as the department continues its digital transformation journey in electronic health records and ongoing pandemic response.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced that the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) will go live in the first quarter of calendar year 2022.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs is reorganizing its electronic health record modernization program with an enterprise-wide governance structure, improved training and change management, and an enterprise readiness and planning approach to deployment of the system.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs has completed its 12-week-long strategic review of its electronic health record (EHR) modernization program and is getting set to announce next steps in the program over the next two weeks.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is focusing on making health care system interoperability more robust and preventing information-blocking across health IT networks and information exchanges, National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi said.

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IHS's acting director spoke on the current state and future needs of the agency as Congress considers the FY 2022 budget.

Veterans Affairs leadership prioritizes pandemic response and considers possible shifts in electronic health record implementation.

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The Indian Health Service is looking at how tools like telehealth and EHRs will impact tribal populations long term.

The Defense Health Agency is working to integrate and consolidate a variety of networks and systems across military treatment facilities (MTFs) as it continues to absorb the various military hospitals and clinics across the defense health space.