EHRs

Although the agency paused MHS Genesis deployment during the pandemic, leaders have continued progressing health record modernization alongside VA.

The Defense Health Agency and military officials are providing medical and technological personnel and resources across the country.

• Electronic Health Records

Easing data sharing across health care holds potential for all stakeholders, from day-to-day care to public health crises.

• Electronic Health Records
• Health IT

The rules require patient health information sharing among providers for improved patient care.

• Electronic Health Records
• Health IT

The officials report successful transition of MTFs to DHA and MHS GENESIS EHR deployments to House members.

• Electronic Health Records

The agency released a final strategic report suggesting ways to relieve provider EHR burdens and improve care.

• Electronic Health Records

Government officials are emphasizing the importance of electronic patient access to their health care records and of moving interoperability standards forward through personal anecdotes of their own mishaps with current health care practices.

• Electronic Health Records
• Health IT

The Department of Health and Human Services has released for public comment its draft of the 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan — which largely highlights the importance of empowering end users, leveraging data resources, increasing transparency and cybersecurity, as well as driving cost-spending efficiency.

• Electronic Health Records
• Health IT

Top leadership at the Defense Health Agency want industry partners to "make IT boring again" by being anything but boring.

Representatives from the Department of Veterans Affairs see great opportunity in an upcoming transfer of the agency's electronic health records from the homegrown VISTA platform to a new database.

An update on VA’s current tech tools, services and priorities moving forward to improve veteran health care, as outlined by VA CIO James Gfrerer.