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By partnering with Meharry Medical College, the cloud giant says it aims to enhance community care and wellness in Middle Tennessee with AI and clinical applications, spark health innovation and cultivate workforce skills.

So says a new OIG audit, which found the VA and Oracle Health have been misaligned in their responses to outages throughout Electronic Health Record Modernization. While the agency has made procedural improvements, it needs to go further, auditors say.

The accountable care organization has achieved a 10% improvement in quality gap closure, a key measure of network performance that will deliver $1 million in potential incentive payments.

Also: A Virginia man is facing more than 20 years for unauthorized access and exposure of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's PHI in 2019 to fuel a political conspiracy theory.

By integrating with practices' EHRs, the voice and generative AI tool can help reduce the need to manage drop-down menus and scrolling, reducing physicians' documentation time by up to 40%, the company says.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will extend the contract for the electronic health record modernization first launched seven years ago, even in the face of implementation challenges and more Congressional scrutiny.

Where can smaller hospitals and health systems begin with artificial intelligence? Brent T. Hoard, a partner at Troutman Pepper and AI expert, says most likely with a vendor. He elaborates on this and much more advice.

As part of its annual renegotiation of the agency's EHR modernization efforts, three senators are asking the Veterans Affairs to add more opportunities to hold the vendor responsible for the quality and safety of its deployments.

James McHugh, managing director at Berkeley Research Group, reveals quite positive feelings among provider organization executives on deploying artificial intelligence in the next three years.

Leidos' Partnership for Defense Health announced the deployment of MHS-Genesis, the U.S. Defense Department's Federal Electronic Health Record system, at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (Lovell FHCC) in Chicago.