It's one of the most stubborn and long-lasting problems produced by 10 years of overseas warfighting. Traumatic brain injury and the care requirements it causes will be with the government for a long time. But there is progress in treatment.

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TBI treatment improves after 10 years of war

Coen discusses the unique features of the governtmentwide contracts. For one, all contractors on the IT contract can also perform health IT. Also, CIO-SP III has a small business component — the first of its kind for a GWAC — with more than 90 small businesses from all of the set-aside categories.

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"Patient-centric care enabled by electronics" is the new buzz word in health IT. If you're asking yourself: Isn't all medical care patient-centered already? We were wondering the same thing. Federal News Radio posed that question to Baker immediately after his keynote address at the conference.

FDA is working on "getting IT out of the things it doesn't need to be," says Perakslis. That means more focus on big data and transactions. Perakslis explains how FDA is tackling the flow of information.

VA and DoD are eight months into a five-year project to set up a joint electronic health record system. The effort requires common data standards, in addition to new staff and contracts. Butler gives an update on how the two agencies are doing in implementing the system.

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