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Kendall: DoD 'may end up with a VistA derivative'
"I think, in an ideal world, [VA] would have preferred that we simply, you know, go along with them, but we don't--we may end up there. When we do the source selection, we may end up with a VistA derivative and be more common in software," said DoD's Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Frank Kendall.
DoD passes on VistA, resumes plans to procure commercial EHR
The Defense Department is moving forward with plans to acquire a commercial EHR solution. "There are good reasons for VA to have selected its legacy system," wrote Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in a May 21 memo. "However, many of these reasons do not apply to DoD."
VA giving DoD 'time and space' on iEHR
As Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel gets up to speed on the integrated electronic health record, the Veterans Affairs Department is helping provide him with information he needs to make decisions on the project's future, said VA's Acting Chief Information Officer Stephen Warren during an April 25 press call. On the call, Warren also reaffirmed VA's commitment to an open source iEHR.
Hagel tells committee he stopped Defense EHR RFP
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told a House committee earlier this month the department pulled back from issuing an planned request for proposals for an electronic health record at his instruction.
2014 Budget Request: ONC
The president's fiscal 2014 budget proposal requests $78 million for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The increase in funding is in part because ONCHIT funding under the Recovery Act ends in fiscal 2013, says the Health and Human Services Department's budget in brief (.pdf).
2014 Budget Request: Veterans Affairs
Under President Obama's fiscal 2014 budget request, information technology systems at the Veterans Affairs Department would receive a total discretionary budget authority of $3.683 billion . That means the budget for IT systems would be 15.16 percent more than the current year amount under the continuing resolution when accounting for inflation.
DoD and VA should complete iEHR 'as soon as possible,' says IOM task force
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments should complete work on an integrated electronic health record as soon as possible, says a report from an Institute of Medicine task force.
VA can't 'force feed' DoD on VistA
Although the DoD is soliciting an electronic health record to replace its own legacy system, VA's Acting Chief Information Officer Stephen Warren says VistA isn't entirely off the table
Cyber Command building cyber ops toolkit, says Alexander
The head of Cyber Command says the difference between an exploit in cyberspace and an attack that warrants a response is a policy decision. The White House will make that call, not the military, Gen. Keith Alexander told the House Armed Services subcommittee on intelligence, emerging threats and capabilities on March 13.
IG: VA transmitting sensitive data over unencrypted carrier network
The Veterans Affairs Department was transmitting sensitive data, including personally identifiable information and internal network routing information, over an unencrypted telecommunications carrier network, according to a March 6 VA Office of Inspector General report (.pdf).
