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Tag: Department of Veterans Affairs


EHR & EMR, Regulatory

VA leverages EHR data to assess care quality for mini-stroke patients

February 9, 2018

Via: Health Data Management

The Department of Veterans Affairs is using electronic health record data to assess the quality of care for patients who have experienced a transient ischemic attack, or mini-stroke, effectively replacing labor-intensive and expensive manual chart reviews, the current gold standard […]


EHR & EMR

How patients can help close gap between VA and non-VA care

October 14, 2016

Via: FierceHealthcare

Consumer-mediated health information exchange can help address lack of continuity in health records to improve care from multiple providers, according to new research published online in Telemedicine and e-Health. The study involved training patients to use My HealtheVet, the patient […]


Regulatory

AMA Proposes Better Loan Forgiveness for VA Docs

June 15, 2016

Via: MedPageToday

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) should solve its access-to-care crisis by taking steps to get more physicians to practice in the VA, rather than giving more authority to its advance-practice nurses, the American Medical Association said Tuesday. “One thing […]