This is good coverage of what happened at the big New York VA hospital during storm Sandy. They lost their only MRI machine. It’s going to be a wait until March of next year before outpatients will be seen at the facility again. As stated in the video this is better news than what was originally reported that they didn’t know if it would re-open. The waiting for benefit times to kick in is horrendous and sad that our veterans have to endure. The VA does take some very hard hits and the fact that the waiting time to get benefits is so long is something that really needs to be fixed. As I keep saying “the short order code kitchen burned several years ago and everyone missed the fire sale” remains true in the fact that complex IT infrastructures take time and a lot of money. Here’s one story from back in 2010 where life insurers dug in. In 2009 alone, the families of U.S. soldiers and veterans were supposed to be paid death benefits totaling $1 billion immediately, according to their insurance policies and this was a secret profit center for insurers.
Veterans Administration Caught Blind Sided by Life Insurers – Death Benefit Accounts Used For Profits With Survivors Receiving Checks That Are No Good and Funds Not FDIC Insured
The goal was to get the wait time down and it keeps going up. It’s not just disability claims, burial and appeals are in

Lutheran Medical Center Goes Live with OpenVista Electronic Health Records In New York and 2 More In New Jersey Up Next
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One more item the VA has done well with is the Blue Button where at least one can get their medical records easy enough. So if you are a participant as a patient get the documentation you can. Here’s a story from a short while back when the systems at Walter Reed went down, smartphone and access to patient records to the rescue for both the patient and consulting doctor.
A Strong Case for the Veterans Affairs “Blue Button”–Patient Access To Their Medical Records–Role Model Employee From the Navy Recounts His Experience At Walter Reed Hospital–We Need to Hear More Like This
This is just really sad first of all for the soldiers returning and second of all we all forget where a lot of technologies we use today came from. I certainly hope we don’t see any more cuts for their benefits as what do they do, wait around for years and some have conditions that need treatment right away.
In the Los Angeles and Long Beach area when they

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