Health IT

The Defense Health Agency looks to collapse multiple legacy health IT networks used by military hospitals and clinics into a single modern network.

Errol Weiss, the H-ISAC’s chief security officer, told Federal News Network the organization primarily exists to keep medical devices manufacturers and health care providers – such as clinics and hospitals – appraised of known IT vulnerabilities.

A more connected health IT landscape also increases the cyber threat landscape and introduces new challenges for security professionals.

The organizational chart that maps out responsibilities for ensuring VA’s new electronic health record will work with DoD’s has 16 different boxes in it. That’s a worry for many lawmakers.

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Justification documents published by the Pentagon Tuesday increase the ceiling value of the MHS Genesis contract to $5.5 billion.

The Coast Guard joins VA in agreeing to adopt the commercial EHR DoD has already selected, but implementation details remain unclear.

On this episode of Women of Washington, Gigi Schumm welcomed Lisa Mitnick, managing director for Accenture Digital.

The Bipartisan Policy Center has come up with recommendations for a better approach to health information technology.

Defense officials acknowledge early challenges in EHR deployment, but have no plans to delay further implementation