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Veterans - United States
Articles and resources about egovernment initiatives related to Veterans in the United States.
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- Warrior Gateway
- The Warrior Gateway connects all veterans and their families and caretakers with services and programs they need as they return to local communities - free of charge. As at 24 May 2010, the Warrior Gateway lets you: find, map, review and rate services near you; add, save searches and share service providers with others; search current job openings across multiple job sites at once...
Added: 24 May 2010;
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- Web portal Warrior Gateway helps digital-age vets
- by Barbara Ortutay. The Age, May 24, 2010. "For young veterans returning from duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, the process of re-entering society can be daunting, especially if they have been injured or have struggled with mental health problems. A new free web portal wants to help these warriors find the services they need in an environment they are comfortable in: the internet..."
Added: 24 May 2010;
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- VA cuts health care spending with in-home monitoring systems
- By Bob Brewin. NextGov, 26 April 2010. "The Veterans Affairs Department has used in-home monitoring and teleconferencing systems to cut hospital admissions by 19 percent and save tens of thousands of dollars in patient care, results that have implications for lowering U.S. health care spending if a national broadband network can be established, a top official at the Federal Communications Commission told a Senate hearing..."
Added: 28 April 2010;
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- VA said to save $3 billion by using health IT
- Agency spent $4 billion on health IT and saved $7 billion, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, April 8, 2010. "The Veterans Affairs Department saved a net $3 billion over the last decade by using health information technology to eliminate duplicate tests, and reduce medical errors and operating costs, according to a new study published in Health Affairs..."
Added: 9 April 2010;
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- DOD/VA Health records project yielding important lessons
- Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record should conform to Nationwide Health Information Network standards, officials say, By Amber Corrin. Federal Computer Week, March 24, 2010. "The joint health data exchange pilot project between the Defense and the Veterans Affairs departments is still in its early phases, but already has taught valuable lessons about interoperability, government officials working on the project say..."
Added: 25 March 2010;
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- Social media likely coming to Vets health portal
- Veterans want features such as chat for the My HealtheVet Web portal, By Doug Beizer. Federal Computer Week, March 23, 2010. "Veterans Affairs Department officials plan to add social-media style tools to the portal veterans use to access health records..."
Added: 24 March 2010;
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- VA/DOD Expand Electronic Health Information Pilot to Eastern Virginia
- US Department of Defense, News Release, No. 180-10, March 8, 2010. "The Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense today announced the next phase of the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Health Communities Program. This initiative improves care and services to our nation’s heroes by sharing health information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) developed under the leadership of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)..."
Added: 9 March 2010;
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- VA launches Open Government Web site with IT dashboard
- VA dashboard shows eight percent failure rate for IT projects, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, February 9, 2010. "The Veterans Affairs Department debuts VA.gov/Open today, its new Web page that highlights ongoing VA open government initiatives to improve transparency and public engagement..."
Added: 11 February 2010;
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- Electronic Health Records: DOD and VA Interoperability Efforts Are Ongoing; Program Office Needs to Implement Recommended Improvements - GAO-10-332
- Government Accountability Office, January 28, 2010. "The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 required the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to accelerate their exchange of health information and to develop capabilities that allow for interoperability (generally, the ability of systems to exchange data) by September 30, 2009. It also required compliance with federal standards and the establishment of a joint interagency program office to function as a single point of accountability for the effort. Further, the act directed GAO to semiannually report on the progress made in achieving these requirements. For this fourth report, GAO determined the extent to which (1) DOD and VA developed and implemented electronic health record systems or capabilities that allowed for full interoperability by September 30, 2009, and (2) the interagency program office established by the act is functioning as a single point of accountability. To do so, GAO analyzed agency documentation on project status and conducted interviews with agency officials..."
Added: 31 January 2010;
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- VA puts hospital data on Data.gov
- VA's is posting its annual report card online for the first time, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, December 14, 2009. "The Veterans Affairs Department is now putting raw data from its annual hospital report card online on Data.gov..."
Added: 17 December 2009;
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- VA plans pilot projects for Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record initiative
- Expects to select three to six communities for participation in the coming year, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, December 8, 2009. "The Veterans Affairs Department is looking for three to six vendors who can coordinate pilot programs with local hospitals and health plans to advance the VA-Defense Department's Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) program..."
Added: 9 December 2009;
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- Can Telemedicine Help Wounded Warriors With Recovery?
- By Karen Stewartson. Government Technology, November 12, 2009. "... the U.S. Army's Mobile Care (mCare), a telehealth pilot program, veterans with traumatic brain injuries or other serious injuries can be medically monitored by using their cell phones..."
Added: 16 November 2009;
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- VA wants to share aging health IT system
- VA wants industry's ideas, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, November 5, 2009. "The Industry Advisory Council has accepted a challenge from the Veterans Affairs Department. VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker recently asked IAC for help in formulating ideas to spread the department's health information technology system more broadly into the private sector. Now IAC has taken up the charge by forming a working group that Ed Meagher will lead to help develop those ideas..."
Added: 11 November 2009;
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- VA and industry join to develop health record strategy
- Digital health record system for veterans may become more widespread, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, October 20, 2009. "The Veterans Affiars Department has asked the Industry Advisory Council to help decide whether the department's legacy health information technology system, known as VistA, is suitable for more widespread use in private health care facilities..."
Added: 22 October 2009;
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- VA offers grave-locator service to mobile devices
- Service is available over "smart phones", By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, October 19, 2009. "The Veterans Affairs Department has announced a new locator service to make it easier for family members and friends to locate the graves of 6.7 million veterans..."
Added: 20 October 2009;
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