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Lt. Col. Noel Colls, flight surgeon for the Air Force's "Thunderbirds" air demonstration squadron, administers the oath of enlistment to new recruits during the Wings Over Houston Airshow in Houston, Texas, Oct. 9, 2021. The team typically performs an enlistment ceremony at each show site. (Staff Sgt. Andrew D. Sarver/Air Force)

What’s missing from the conversation on Air Force recruiting?

The Air Force says it’s having one of the toughest recruiting stretches of the past quarter-century.

By Rachel S. Cohen

4 months ago

Defense electronic health records rollout is halfway done, even as VA’s is delayed

DoD remains on schedule to deploy its Genesis electronic health records system worldwide by the end of 2023.

By Karen Jowers

7 months ago

VA delays launch of new electronic health records system

VA is delaying the deployment of its new medical records system to ensure that it will operate within the current VA IT infrastructure.

By Patricia Kime

3 years ago

Continuity of medical care for veterans jeopardized by VA

In the switch to a new electronic health records system, the VA must do more to ensure medical documents are properly scanned, says the author of this commentary.

By Deborah Collier

3 years ago

VA, DoD tout major progress in effort to join electronic health records systems

The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are eyeing the end of the summer for significant advances in their efforts for a new, joint electronic health record, a move that both bureaucracies have made the long-term centerpiece of medical reforms for their patients.

By Leo Shane III

4 years ago

Special congressional panel to scrutinize VA’s medical records overhaul

Lawmakers say the project to bring VA records in line with military medical files warrants special oversight.

By Leo Shane III

5 years ago