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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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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.

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An AI model to predict kidney damage, trained on data from veterans, works less well in women

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The results were so promising that the Department of Veterans Affairs, which supplied de-identified patient data to help build the AI, said in 2019 that it would immediately start work to bring it to the bedside. Read the rest…

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STAT+: Cancer drug shortages have plagued the U.S. for years. Can they be fixed?

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Department of Veterans Affairs, described the agonizing decisions that doctors must make when critical medicines are in short supply. Speaking at a March 22 Senate hearing on drug shortages, Schuman, a head and neck surgeon at the U.S.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: More than 9 in 10 pharmacy techs report drug shortages; Yale and VA strike deal over ketamine patent royalties

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Department of Veteran Affairs for ketamine-related inventions, Reuters notes. Yale Enjoy, and see you soon. … Yale University and one of its professors agreed to settle allegations that they wrongly withheld patent royalties from the U.S.  Yale and professor John Krystal agreed to pay $1.5