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Veterans Administration Awards VBrick Contract to Provide Streaming Video Solution for Information and Education In Patient Rooms and Public Access Areas

VBrick is exhibiting at the HIMSS Show, Booth 900, February 21-24 in Orlando Florida if you are there attending the convention. The VA Caribbean Healthcare hospital and other facilities are located in Puerto Rico where they are currently renovating...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2011 3:01 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, Video, healthcare, VA, Veterans Administration, Entertainment, Media, communications, broadcast, streaming, VBrick

Blue Button Mobile Available for Veterans to Download and View Personal Health Records

Northrop Grumman has developed a mobile application called VA-214 whereby personal health records can remotely access MyHealthVet from an Android or iPhone. I have had a series of posts on this topic and you can read more and learn about the...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 2:35 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, medicare, PHR, VA, Medicaid, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CMS, personal heatlh records, mHealth, Blue Button, Northrup Grumman

VA Announces 2011 Industry Innovation Competition for Software, Prosthetics, Telemedicine, and Blue Button Support

$100 Million for Innovations to be awarded for those project that are accepted. What I like here is the fact that this is not just software oriented as we have enough of that out there that could be better collaborated. Software will no doubt...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2011 7:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, healthcare, Telemedicine, VA, software, innovation, challenges, competition, medical equipment, VAi2

General Dynamics And McKesson Receive Contracts to Assist Department of Defense Health Systems to Include AHLTA and Vista-How Many Hands are In this Contract Pot?

Every time you turn around we keep hearing of yet another new contract for the VA and DOD and here’s more. Are they going to give up on their own and get one from McKesson? In the meantime there’s a lot of development going on with VistA too...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 2:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, McKesson, VA, Heatlh IT, Veterans Administration, Department of Defense, collaboration, innovation, GAO. Government Accounting Office, General Dynamics

The Veterans Administration and Department of Defense Need Better Collaboration Says the General Accounting Office

Well obviously this is spreading to the government entities and we are seeing some verification here too on the need to collaborate. Everyone is stuck on the “Innovation” word but really it takes care of itself, collaboration is what is needed....

Published Sun, Feb 02 2011 4:06 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, VA, Heatlh IT, Veterans Administration, Department of Defense, collaboration, innovation, GAO. Government Accounting Office

State of the Union Message Was Clearly About Technology and Healthcare For Survival-Blackstone CEO Thoughts Are Positive from Davos (Video)

This was probably the most unique State of the Union message that I have heard and nice to hear all of the technology mentioned including healthcare too. As I watch the camera span the members it was interesting to watch faces and reactions and...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 7:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, VA, Medicaid, CMS, White House, personal heatlh records, Davos, Blue Button, Blackstone, State of the Nation

VA Blue Button Update–If You are a Vet or an MD Seeing a Vet Get the Health Data Available With Patient Ability to Download (Video)

I have posted on this topic a few times but the White House has released a video that gives a quick over view and man Vets have ben able to retrieve their information to keep or choose to share with their doctors. If you are a private practice doctor...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2010 6:52 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, medicare, PHR, VA, Medicaid, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CMS, White House, personal heatlh records, Blue Button

Lutheran Medical Center Goes Live with OpenVista Electronic Health Records In New York and 2 More In New Jersey Up Next

Also on tap in the regional area, New Jersey’s Meadowlands Hospital, is going live this week, and Hoboken University Medical Center, scheduled to go live in the first quarter of next year. OpenVista is the commercialized version of the Department...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 1:56 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, Medical Records, EHR, VA, Open Source, Meaningful Use, CPOE, Lutheran Medical Center, MUMPS, OpenVista, Medsphere, M

VA Awards Contract to Picis, Subsidiary of Ingenix for Anesthesia Record Keeping Software

Picis before the acquisition by Ingenix already had many hospital installations so it appears this is to be one more area of revenue generation for Ingenix, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Healthcare. During the last year Ingenix purchases several...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 2:40 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Medical Records, VA, Hospitals, software, Government, Algorithms, Contracts, Ingenix, ICU, monitoring, anthesia

Veterans Health And Allen Memorial Hospital in Utah Connecting- Pilot Program With UHIN Via Axolotl, an Ingenix Subsidiary

This will allow records from the VA and rural healthcare providers to share and coordinate medical records. This scores some additional revenue for United Healthcare as the company is owned by Ingenix, which is a subsidiary of United. Axolotl...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 12:33 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Health IT, VA, HIE, Ingenix, ARRA, aggregation, algoirthms, United Health Group, Axolotl, health inforamtion exchange

VA to develop prototype for VistA - Aviva Virtual A Web Enabled System

The revamp is needed they said to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) initiative and make it easier to exchange patient data. The Coast Guard just invested in a system from EPIC to also make use of...

Published Sat, Nov 11 2010 2:19 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, VA, Veterans Administration, Vista, data exchanges, Aviva

Problems with Using Accounting Statistics Without Projective Algorithmic Process Modeling-Cut Spending Without Viewing Alternative Models- IT Literacy In DC?

Yes I read everything that was in the news like everyone else did yesterday and this is my take on this situation. I keep saying these folks on Congress need some “brains” or what I call Algo Men to help them before taking an immediate stance and...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2010 1:50 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, medicare, VA, Social Security, Politics, Veterans Administration, healthcare reform, Non participants, GOP, Pledge to America

Microsoft Awards Up to $8 Million in Cash and Software to Help Veterans Get Jobs And Care

This is a good thing as veterans need skills and help once returning from duty and it’s hard. The private sector has these issues but not to the extent of our vets by all means. Get yourself signed up with Twitter and stay updated on new announcements...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2010 1:57 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, VA, Grants, Veterans, jobs, skills, overseas, consumer IT literacy

$91 Million Prime Contract Awarded to Support Medical Record Sharing Veterans Affairs Beneficiaries–VLER-Lifetime Virtual Electronic Record Program– VA and DOD

The contract involves more work with integrating the VA and DOD medical records with all the data available. What is kind of interesting here is that is is work to ensure that no veteran has a delay of benefits when leaving the military. There...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2010 6:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, VA, Personal Health Records, Heatlh IT, DOD, Standards, VLER, Blue Button, CACI

Dr. David Brailer–US Health Czar Talks About “Getting” Your Personal Health Records & Physician/Hospital Medical Records

The point of the personal health records is to benefit the patient and the prime example he points to here are those with cancer or chronic diseases. Dr. David Brailer also talks about the slow process of getting their records together without a...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2010 7:42 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, medicare, EHR, PHR, Cancer, VA, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, Doctors, Patients, White House, treatments, mapgpie healthcare, Non participants, Blue Button

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