Brief: VA Launches Cash Prizes Program to Improve EHR Systems; Roger Baker Comments
The Department of Veterans Affairs is offering cash prizes to vendors who can improve the department’s electronic health records system, Federal News Radio reports. The program seeks products that can be easily integrated into VA’s VistA,, an open source software. Under the program, the VA will award $3 million to three developers who will pass [...]
VA Providing Hurricane Sandy Responders Mental Health App; Kathleen Frisbee Comments
December 7, 2012 No CommentThe Department of Veterans Affairs is providing a mobile application to mental health workers responding to the effects of Hurricane Sandy, the VA announced Friday. Psychological First Aid Mobile was launched in August to provide responders with summaries of aid fundamentals, interventions regarding concerns and needs of individual survivors, tips for applying PFA in the [...]
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The Department of Veterans Affairs will launch apps next year for employees to access patient information through mobile devices, AOL Government reports. In September, the VA awarded FirstView Federal TS with a $9.3 million contract to develop apps for use by 100,000 VA employees. Jerry Ambrosh, FirstView’s senior vice president for health solutions, told AOL [...]
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HP Moving VA Email, Calendars to Microsoft Cloud; Marilyn Crouther Comments
November 13, 2012 No CommentHP Enterprise Services will move 600,000 users at the Department of Veterans Affairs to a Microsoft cloud, the companies announced today. HP will provide a departmentwide email and calendaring infrastructure for Microsoft Office 365 for Government, starting with 15,000 people and eventually expanding to 600,000 when all contract options are exercised. “The VA needed to [...]
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VA Awards Mobile App Store, Device Mgmt Software Contract; Jerry Ambrosh Comments
October 8, 2012 No CommentThe Department of Veterans Affairs has selected Firstview Federal Technology Solutions LLC to provide the department a cloud computing-based mobile application store, Nextgov reports. According to Bob Brewin, Firstview will also provide the VA mobile device management software under the $4.4 million contract awarded last week. The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to issue a [...]
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The Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs will start testing components of their integrated electronic health record system in October, Federal Times reports. DoD houses testing facilities in Richmond, Va. and Hawaii’s Maui island, where the departments and contractors will test how legacy systems interact with new components of the iEHR system. The VA uses [...]
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The Defense Department will provide the majority of information technology architecture for the Pentagon’s joint electronic health record system with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Nextgov’s Bob Brewin reports. Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant defense secretary for health affairs, said in an April report to Congress that the Defense Information Systems Agency will save the health [...]
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Operational efficiency, mobility, smart government and economic stability will be the key themes of government investment in information technology for 2012, according to a forecast from IDC Government Insights. As covered by InformationWeek, IDC predicts governments at all levels will spend nearly $82.4 billion on hardware, software and IT services in 2012. IDC found that [...]
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced this week the twelve finalists that have been selected for the latest innovation initiative competition. The competition, which aims to generate new ideas to help service-disabled veterans obtain meaningful employment, received more than 700 proposals submitted by department employees. According to VA, peer review, enabled by crowd-sourcing technology [...]
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Booz Allen Hamilton has been named a prime contractor on the Veterans Affairs Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology contract to support the VA’s modernization and transformation efforts. The firm is one of 14 contractors on $12 billion indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity award. The contract has a five-year period of performance and enables the VA to acquire services [...]
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