On Thursday evening, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced an agreement with Cerner for the VA to use off-the-shelf Cerner solutions, replacing the legacy VistA EHR. The migration to Cerner will provide veterans, transitioning service members and their care providers access to their medical history through a single electronic health record (EHR) system. The deal is expected to cost $10 billion dollars over 10 years years.Using technology that has been deployed successfully at
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McKesson Lands $139M DoD Contract for RelayHealth’s Patient Engagement, Secure Messaging
McKesson announced today that the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Defense Health Agency (DHA) has awarded a $139 million, five-year contract for RelayHealth’s patient engagement and interoperable secure messaging solutions. The solutions will serve the Military Health System’s (MHS) patients, physicians, physician assistants, nurse case managers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, dentists, and other members of the care team. The contract is a nine-month base transition-in period
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DoD Now Accepting Bids for $11B EHR Modernization Project
On Monday, the Department of Defense (DoD) officially issued a final solicitation of bids for a $11 billion dollar EHR modernization project. Proposals are due by October 9th. The final solicitation comes after 11 months of information requests, three major drafts for proposal, and other changes As part of the project, the DoD will replace the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application, or AHLTA, Composite Health Care System and Various EHR components, including AHLTA-Theater.
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Top 10 Most Popular Articles in July 2013
Each month we compile a list of the 10 most popular articles we published that month, based on the number of page views.
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