Nov 23, 2017
A half century after serving in Vietnam, hundreds of veterans have a new reason to believe they may be dying from a silent bullet: Test results show some men may have been infected by a slow-killing parasite while fighting in the jungles of Southeast Asia. SOURCE...
Nov 20, 2017
Medical personnel from the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force, assigned to both Camp Lemonnier and the Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) Surgeon Cell, along with medical professionals from Djibouti and the German Army, collaborated with the Navy...
Nov 20, 2017
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce is asking the Department of Health and Human Services to follow through with a key recommendation outlined in the HHS Cybersecurity Task Force report from June: Include bill of materials for every medical device to alert...
Nov 20, 2017
In late October, the Defense Health Agency announced a suite of 36 five-year contracts, with a cumulative $7.5 billion ceiling, for professional medical services in the Defense Department’s military treatment facilities in the 50 states, District of Columbia, Guam and...
Nov 17, 2017
As part of its effort to expand private health care, the Department of Veterans Affairs is exploring the possibility of merging its health system with the Pentagon’s, a cost-saving measure that veterans groups say could threaten the viability of VA hospitals and...
Nov 17, 2017
Today, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Acting Secretary Eric D. Hargan named three members to the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC). The committee, created by the 21st Century Cures Act, is charged with making recommendations...
Nov 16, 2017
The Elizabeth Dole Foundation, in partnership with the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs, announced the formation of a new, groundbreaking initiative called, “The Campaign for Inclusive Care,” focused on ensuring that military caregivers are integrated fully as part...
Nov 16, 2017
“I wish I knew this 30 years ago,” is a common feeling among Air Force veterans after receiving diabetes education. Like most of the 89 million Americans with prediabetes, many active duty Airmen do not know the ways they can prevent or delay the onset of...
Nov 15, 2017
When Cerner won a contract to become the electronic health records (EHR) provider for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Secretary David Shulkin, MD, indicated that IT upgrades would be the agency’s largest expense in coming years. The extent of those costs...
Nov 15, 2017
A senior official responsible for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ move to a modern electronic health records system guaranteed Wednesday to Congress that by the end of the new EHR’s deployment, there will be “100 percent” interoperability with the Defense...
Nov 14, 2017
University Park, Centre County, Pa. – The new Veterans Affairs Center at Penn State will offer a wide variety of services, including a better place for those in the military to study and take new programs. Lt. Col. Andre Ingram is a World Campus student studying...
Nov 14, 2017
Fargo’s Veterans Affairs Medical Center is trying to lower the number of homeless veterans throughout the F-M area. They provided resources to many of them at their Homeless Veterans Stand Down event. SOURCE – READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT:...
