Former VA chief Shulkin tapped to lead innovation at Sanford Health
Dr. David Shulkin, whose departure from the VA was announced through Twitter this past spring, will be chief innovation officer at Sanford Health in South Dakota.
Week Ahead: SCOTUS will dominate the news cycle, but watch for VA and 340B changes
While Roe v. Wade will be the hot-button issue in the fight over the next Supreme Court justice, the high court could continue to reshape the broader healthcare landscape if cases on the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid work their way through the courts.
Week Ahead: VA's $10 billion contract with Cerner to get oversight committee's attention
The House Veterans' Affairs Committee begins what is likely to be a long oversight process of Cerner's hefty contract to modernize the VA's electronic health record system.
House passes VA Choice expansion
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a compromise VA Choice reform bill. Congress aims to send it to the president before funding runs out in May.
Week ahead: VA, opioids, drug pricing. It's a busy week in D.C.
Along with the rest of the industry, babyforyou.pro is eager to hear what President Donald Trump has to say about drug prices. But that's not all we are watching this week.
Coast Guard moves to Cerner as the VA's EHR contract remains up in the air
The U.S. Coast Guard will move to the Defense Department's EHR, which could help streamline access to the records, especially if the VA's contract with Cerner moves forward.
What does the Shulkin ouster mean for expansion of VA Choice?
An expansion of the VA Choice program would mean more veterans seeing private providers. But the political debate around aspects of the plan has hindered progress in Congress.
House to examine bill that would speed payment from VA Choice program
Hospitals would benefit from changes to the VA Choice program under a bill being discussed in the House.
Veterans Health Administration thinks key to interoperability may be in the cloud
A VHA pilot program hopes to pull patient data from military and commercial electronic health record systems, applications, devices and wearables and send it to a patient's healthcare team in real-time.
Value-based insurance coming to millions of people in Tricare
The annual defense bill authorized a pilot program to test value-based insurance design for people covered by Tricare, the U.S. Defense Department's health benefits program.
Defense Department grants AI pharma company access to breast cancer tissue samples
The partnership will allow Berg to examine more than 13,000 tissue samples from breast cancer patients for biomarkers that could boost precision medicine and oncology research alike.
Military delays first EHR go-lives
The scheduled initial rollout of the Military Health System's new multibillion-dollar electronic health record system has been delayed, at least for several months. The schedule was "aggressive" and more time was needed to address issues that came up during testing.
