The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced the completion of an important milestone on its joint path with the Department of Defense to create a single electronic health record system for service members and Veterans. OSEHRA (pronounced “oh- sarah”), the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent, has begun operations and will serve as the central [...]
Harris Corporation Awarded Contract to Provide Engineering and Enterprise Support to Veteran Affairs’s VistA Imaging System
March 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to continue providing advanced software engineering and enterprise support to the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) Imaging System. This multi-year contract was originally awarded to Harris in August 2008. The VistA [...]
VA and Kaiser Permanente Invite Veterans to Participate in Health Record Pilot Program
November 25, 2009 By 1 Comment
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Kaiser Permanente today announced an exciting program designed to improve care and services to our Nation’s heroes. VA and Kaiser Permanente are launching a pilot program to exchange electronic health record (EHR) information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human [...]
