Tag: veterans-affairs
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DoD resistance to open-source EHR ‘detrimental’ to Obama’s goals
Despite the White House’s public desire to use open standards to create an integrated electronic health record system to serve both the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, DoD, for years, has resisted such an approach, according to a recently publicized DoD memo. read more
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VA leaders: ‘Next generation’ EHRs need enhanced usability
The “next generation” of electronic health record systems need to make more than “incremental” changes and move beyond the concept of serving as computerized paper charts, according to a new study of leaders in the Department of Veterans Affairs, published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association .