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Lawmakers grill VA, Oracle leaders over pharmacy-related patient safety issues

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A year after hitting the pause button on a multi-billion-dollar health tech project at the Department of Veterans Affairs, federal lawmakers continue to have serious concerns about pharmacy softwar | A year after hitting the pause button on a multi-billion-dollar health tech project at the Department of Veterans Affairs, federal lawmakers continue (..)

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Massive study of veterans’ DNA shows how diversity can help researchers decipher the genome

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Department of Veterans Affairs analyzed data from nearly 636,000 veterans to look for genetic variants associated with more than 2,000 traits, such as height, blood glucose levels, and whether subjects had certain cancers. A team of researchers involved in an ongoing project spearheaded by the U.S.

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Blind employee takes VA to court saying new EHR from Oracle is inaccessible

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A blind employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs is suing the federal agency on grounds that their new electronic health records system makes it impossible for her to do her job.

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STAT+: Health plan formularies lowered barriers to fair access to some drugs, analysis finds

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Department of Veterans Affairs. Almost uniformly, the 11 formularies made the drugs available fairly when judged on three criteria: eligibility based on clinical data, restrictions placed on prescribers, and step therapy, which requires patients to try other medicines before insurers approve a prescription.

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Kaiser Permanente, UPMC among 13 major health systems to sign interoperability pact with VA

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Thirteen major health systems have signed on to a pledge agreeing to work toward sharing patient care data with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in a bid to improve veterans’ cross-organizat | By working toward seamless, secure data exchange, the organizations hope to better coordinate the care veterans seek from community providers and ensure (..)

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VA, Stanford Medicine unveil plans to develop new comprehensive cancer center in Palo Alto

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Stanford Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) unveiled plans Friday to collaborate on a project that will bring a new National Cancer Institute-designated joint cancer care and rese | Stanford Medicine and the VA unveiled plans on Friday to collaborate on a project that will bring a new National Cancer Institute-designated joint cancer (..)

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STAT+: Health plan formularies lowered barriers to fair access to some drugs, analysis finds

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Department of Veterans Affairs. Almost uniformly, the 19 formularies made the medicines available fairly when judged on three criteria: eligibility based on clinical data, restrictions placed on prescribers, and step therapy, which requires patients to try other medicines before an insurer will approve a prescription.