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The new federal electronic health records system went live at facilities in Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit and Saginaw. The Department of Veterans Affairs also says it is staffing up to support implementations of the long-beleaguered Oracle Health EHR.
The Department of Defense has opened a multiple-award solicitation, focused on procurement of enterprise technologies and other IT related to the MHS GENESIS electronic health record.
More veterans have faster access to community care appointments and will have access to VR therapies, while an agentic artificial intelligence-enhanced operational system will help 150 VHA medical centers eliminate siloed processes.
Rumored for weeks, a reduction in force across Oracle business units, including Oracle Health and AI employees, appears to be hitting health IT developers in Kansas City and others worldwide.
The U.S. Attorney's Office investigated the Veterans Affairs' electronic health modernization project director from 2017 to 2021 and alleges he accepted thousands in cash, casino chips and other gifts from federal contractors.
Several companies have released artificial intelligence enhancements for healthcare administration and operations, from billing and staffing to security and data management. Also, the VA will scale ambient scribing.
With the VA Interoperability Pledge, Veteran Confirmation API and other efforts, the agency has improved cross-sector collaboration, coordinating care and benefits for more than 1 million veterans, said speakers at HIMSS26.
To get innovative healthcare technologies into the hands of providers, patients and others, it takes a community of partners to turn policy signals into market momentum.
At HIMSS26, leaders from CMS and ASTP/ONC discussed the two different but complementary approaches to interoperability, likening the first one to the tides and the second to a speedboat.
By adopting the standard usability practices in The Sequioa Project's USCDI v3 guidance, organizations can improve clinical data quality and enhance patient care, which are essential for innovation.
