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Ransomware payment debate resurfaces amid Change Healthcare …

WebThe American Healthcare Association said that 94% of hospitals are signaling financial impact due to the incident, with some providers losing upwards of $1 …

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HHS issues final rule to expand HIPAA coverage for reproductive …

WebThe Department of Health and Human Services released a final rule on the data privacy provisions for reproductive health care information deemed individually …

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Chicago phase of VA's health record software deployment is live …

WebThe rollout of Oracle Cerner EHR software at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center is DOD’s final deployment of the new system and a critical …

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VA plans to restart EHR deployments before the end of FY25, …

WebThe Department of Veterans Affairs expects to resume deployments of its new electronic health record system before the end of fiscal year 2025, VA Secretary …

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CDC rolls out new COVID-19 website

WebTechnical and health communications experts cut the website down from over 4,000 PDFs and HTML pages to about 760 PDFs and 220 HTML pages, although old …

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HHS Launches New Cybersecurity Awareness Resources

WebThe Department of Health and Human Services launched three new cybersecurity resources on Monday, each focusing on raising awareness for medical …

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Ongoing ‘reset’ looks to put VA’s EHR deployment back on track

WebAlthough the Department of Veterans Affairs halted deployments of its new multibillion-dollar Oracle Cerner Millennium electronic health record system earlier this …

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CISA and HHS look to help the health sector ramp up cyber hygiene

WebCISA. Health Tech. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a new set of guidance in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and …

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HHS Establishes Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

WebThe Health and Human Services Department Thursday announced the formal launch of its Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H.. ARPA …

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State is taking an ‘important step’ for planned EHR, as key …

WebThe State Department is finally taking steps toward adopting a long-delayed electronic health record system for its diplomatic corps, even as new Senate legislation …

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Health Modernization: Core IT Must Keep Up with Clinical Innovation

WebThree Essential Stages to Health IT Transformation. The path to coordinating improvements for both clinical and core IT can be viewed as three, interdependent …

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VA budget bill maintains EHR funding but imposes additional …

WebThe bipartisan FY24 budget package allocates over $1.3 billion for the agency’s new electronic health record system but makes 25% of that funding contingent …

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VA officials tout EHR rollout at Chicago site amid efforts to …

WebRetired Capt. James A. Lovell, left, a NASA astronaut, speaks to more than 750 guests at the official opening of the Capt. James A. Lovell Federal Health Care …

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Change Healthcare attack did not result in harm to veteran care, …

WebThe February cyberattack on Change Healthcare affected a number of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ systems and temporarily delayed some veterans’ …

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VA cautiously optimistic that ‘very positive’ March EHR rollout …

WebVA officials have pointed to the deployment at Lovell as a key test of its reset efforts, given the large size of the facility and the potential for it to inform future rollouts of …

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Vet centers need better systems, data to enhance support services

WebThe Department of Veterans Affairs’ community-based counseling centers — known as vet centers — provide critical mental health services to help veterans readjust …

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Biden budget cuts funding for health record refresh amid ongoing

WebThe long-delayed 2024 budget for the VA, which President Joe Biden signed into law on March 9, ultimately included roughly $1.3 billion in funding for the EHR …

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VA pharmacy tech glitches put 250,000 veterans at risk, officials say

WebCase spoke at a hearing of the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization convened to examining issues with VA’s new pharmacy …

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DOD’s new EHR faces low user satisfaction and integration …

WebThe watchdog study, released on April 18, reviewed annual surveys of clinicians’ satisfaction with DOD’s EHR system — known as MHS Genesis — and found …

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Federal CIO defends Login security after health agency dropped it …

WebThe U.S. government’s chief information officer defended a widely used single-sign-on tool that the Department of Health and Human Services jettisoned from its …

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Americans are Increasingly Moving to Red States

WebThe United States is an increasingly polarized country when it comes to politics – but one thing that almost all people want is to live a long, healthy life.. More and …

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