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Engility reports $61M in Air Force health informatics orders
Engility Corp. has reported six wins of task orders worth $63 million combined for healthcare informatics and medical coding work at 14 Air Force bases. SOURCE – READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT: ... Read More
VA proposes Choice program overhaul that eliminates 30-day/40-mile rule
The Department of Veterans Affairs sent a bill proposal to Congress that would overhaul how veterans receive health care in the private sector and do away with the widely criticized “30-day/40-mile” rule, the agency announced Monday. ... Read More
VA to issue photo ID cards to veterans starting in November
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is set to issue a hard-copy photo ID to any honorably discharged veteran who applies for one. On July 20, 2015, then-President Obama signed into law the Veterans Identification Card Act of 2015, ... Read More
Manus Medical wins $10m DoD contract
Surgical supplies company Manus Medical has won a $9.9 million contract with the US Department of Defense to supply it with medical equipment, according to a DoD release. SOURCE – READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT: ... Read More
Readers sound off: Problems at the VA with transparency, efficiency
A USA TODAY Network investigation revealed that for years, the Department of Veterans Affairs didn’t address misdeeds by staff members that put patients at risk. Comments are edited for clarity and grammar… SOURCE – ... Read More
An old-school pharmacy hand-delivers drugs to Congress, a little-known perk for the powerful
If House Speaker Paul Ryan comes down with the flu this winter, he and his security detail won’t be screeching off toward the closest CVS for his Tamiflu.Instead, he can just walk downstairs and pick up the pills, part of a ... Read More
Loyola Medicine to acquire MacNeal; Tenet seeks to sell 3 other Chicago-area hospitals
Loyola Medicine plans to buy MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, further expanding its reach while adding another name to the list of suburban hospitals snapped up by Chicago-area health systems. It also marks the beginning of the end of Tenet Read More
A century-old vaccine vial sheds light on one of medicine’s enduring mysteries
A 115-year-old vaccine vial has provided an important clue in the search for an answer to one of medicine’s enduring mysteries: What went into the world’s first vaccine? SOURCE – READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT: ... Read More
Breaking the Stranglehold of Calcified Federal Acquisition Policies
Mac Thornberry, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, thinks government ought to be able to take advantage of the robust world of online marketplaces (think Amazon or EBay). Thus, he has included in the House version of the ... Read More
Can the US Repair Its Health Care While Keeping Its Innovation Edge?
The United States health care system has many problems, but it also promotes more innovation than its counterparts in other nations. That’s why discussions of remaking American health care often raise concerns about threats to ... Read More