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'Way Ahead' architecture to serve as backbone for iEHR

New work on the enterprise architecture created for the joint integrated electronic health record effort of the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs will be based on work already completed by each department, according to a DoD  report . The Military Health System's "EHR Way Ahead" architecture will serve as the backbone for the iEHR EA. 

Faults in DoD's EHR cripple drug abuse tracking efforts

Medication documentation issues with the Department of Defense's electronic health record system are keeping doctors from successfully tracking drug use by soldiers, hindering their efforts to crack

DoD, VA will use service-oriented architecture in joint EHR

The ever-evolving, contentious effort to merge the electronic health records of the Department of Defense and the Veterans Affairs Department just took another step forward. Mark Goodge, chief

In North Chicago, a glimpse of the iEHR to come

North Chicago's James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, the remodeled Illinois hospital which has served as a pilot for Veterans Affairs- and Defense-department facility collaboration, began

Army tests mobile EMR, patient tracking apps on iPhone, Android

The U.S. Army is testing EMR, medical supply-chain and patient-tracking applications on a variety of mobile devices for possible deployment in combat zones, a Pentagon publication reports. The Army's

DoD to replace EMR after $2B upgrade only a mild success

Federal agencies that have their own health systems have been busy pondering the future of their EMRs, and some actually have taken steps forward recently. Of particular note, the Department of

Report: Epic likely to get massive contract to replace DoD's AHLTA EHR

A week ago, FierceEMR reported that the man who would be top doc at the Pentagon--Dr. Jonathan Woodson, President Obama's nominee for assistant secretary of defense for health affairs--wants the

DoD health nominee says EHR development is a top priority

Dr. Jonathan Woodson, President Obama's nominee for assistant secretary of defense for health affairs--the top physician at the Pentagon--says that developing an advanced EHR at the Department of

VA preparing to re-start health data exchange with DoD

The Department of Veterans Affairs may have already made a decision to restart health data exchange with the Department of Defense, slightly more than a week after cutting off access to Military

VA shuts access to DoD medical records after data errors

Health information interoperability efforts between the Veterans Health Administration and the Military Health System suffered another setback, as the Department of Veterans Affairs cut off access to