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Improving Healthcare Outcomes through IT Policy
How Health IT Enables Better quality at lower cost. Adapting IT processes to meet evolving public policy requirements is essential to delivering efficient, quality healthcare. Government, health IT professionals, and providers are racing to meet the changing federal and state regulations, while struggling with tightening budgets, sequestration, and mandates to improve care and reduce cost — all while expanding access to millions of new patients. Join us as we explore the many nuances to improving healthcare outcomes through IT policy with our esteemed panel of nationally-recognized experts in the field of healthcare outcomes and IT policy.
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Tags: HiMSS , health IT , Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition , Gayle Harrell , Lygeia Ricciardi , Elizabeth S. Holland , Carla Smith
Former VA CIO Baker joins Agilex
Roger Baker becomes the company's chief strategy officer to help it understand the market and ensure it's meeting agency customer expectations.
Tags: industry , technology , people , VA , Agilex , program management , Jason Miller
Baker leaving VA a transformed IT organization
Roger Baker's last day as the Veterans Affairs
Department's assistant secretary for
information and technology and chief
information officer is March 8. He said the
agency manages and oversees IT much differently than it did four years ago.
March 7, 2013
Tags: Jason Miller , Ask the CIO , technology , VA , veterans benefits claim , IT efficiencies , PMAS
CIO priorities zero in on cloud, cyber as budget uncertainty looms
Federal chief information officers remain concerned with securing their agencies' networks and systems. Cybersecurity ranked first in a list of CIOs priorities in an exclusive survey conducted by Federal News Radio. Also among CIOs' top priorities were moving back-office or commodity IT systems to the cloud and using IT to ease the budget pressures facing agencies. Roger Baker, assistant secretary for information and technology and chief information officer of the Veterans Affairs Department discussed the survey results on In Depth with Francis Rose.
Tags: cybersecurity , In Depth , technology , cloud computing , IT budget , exclusive
House committee worried DoD, VA 'moving the goal posts' on e-health records
A House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on the decision by the Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments to scale back plans for a joint integrated electronic-health records systems dredged up longstanding issues with the two departments' EHR efforts.
Tags: EHR , health IT , technology , Congress , House , iEHR , Jeff Miller , Elizabeth McGrath
VA CTO Peter Levin to leave agency
Peter Levin, the Veterans Affairs chief technology officer, is leaving the agency. He follows Roger Baker, the agency's CIO and assistant secretary in the Office of Information and Technology, who resigned last week.
Tags: Peter Levin , CTO , VA , health IT , Blue Button
VA CIO Baker to resign
Roger Baker, VA's assistant secretary in the Office of Information and Technology, helped improve the agency's management of IT projects, implement mobile devices and continued to address cybersecurity.
Tags: VA , people , Jason Miller
Beneficiaries claim VA's processing of GI Bill benefits still lackluster
The Department of Veterans Affairs' work to automate payments under the complicated Post-9/11 GI bill is coming to fruition. But schools and students complain about inability to track status of claims.
Tags: Congress , VA , Post-9/11 GI Bill , Hayleigh Perez , Michael Dakduk , Kim Hall , Robert Worley , House Veterans Affairs Committee , IRS , technology , Jared Serbu
DoD, VA accelerate schedule for integrated health record
The two departments are looking for "quick wins" in their integrated health-record strategy, aiming to bring the most important capabilities online three years early.
Tags: DoD , VA , health IT , technology , Integrated Electronic Health Record , Eric Shinseki , Leon Panetta , Jonathan Woodson , Elizabeth McGrath , Jared Serbu
VA testing cash prizes to improve its health record system
The Department of Veterans Affairs is trying out a new system of contests to make upgrades to its electronic medical record system. The agency plans to award up to three prizes worth $3 million to vendors who create open-source based components to VistA.
Tags: technology , VA , VistA , VMBS , health IT , acquisition , Jared Serbu
