electronic health records

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

Investment in federal electronic health records and data consolidation has already paid dividends in improving both continuity of care as well as overall digital modernization across partner agencies.

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

Transitioning from paper record-keeping to electronic is a key component across federal IT modernization strategies, but aligning the budget to the effort has been a challenging hurdle.

The ongoing electronic health records collaboration between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Health Agency is laying the groundwork for improvements in patient care, as well as showing promising signs to help advance public health across the nation as a whole.

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The effort incorporates various successes in tech interoperability and partnerships.

The implementation of broad-reaching health records modernization across the Department of Veterans Affairs is encouraging broader tech modernization to encourage a smoother transition.

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Integrating emerging technology to safeguard information at the VA.

As the Department of Veterans Affairs launched full implementation of its new electronic health record over the weekend, the stressors and demands of COVID-19 appear to have helped VA understand critical modernization priorities.

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Technical advances are improving customer experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

The U.S. Coast Guard deployed its new electronic health record (EHR) system at four pilot sites in the Pacific area at the beginning of September, with support from the Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Health Agency and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Former Program Executive Office Defense Healthcare Management Systems Program Executive Officer Bill Tinston has transitioned to the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization program office as its first official director, a position in which he intends to operationalize the FEHRM as it delivers health IT solutions for the single, common federal EHR.