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Military EHR system faces challenges
EHR Connection, August 13, 2007
The Departments of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) have failed for five years to come up with a plan to integrate their EHR systems, and according to the president's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors, the VA and DOD should develop a portal to store all of the departments' healthcare and benefits data within the year.
Commercial vendors who develop and manage Web-based health records systems argue that creating a Web-based military health record system should be easier to implement than it has been, according to an August 3 article in the Government Executive.
"Sharing information [between Defense and VA] has been the right thing to do for the past 20 years, and it's not rocket science," stated Robert McFarland, VA's former assistant secretary for IT and CIO.
To view the Government Executive article, click here.
To view the Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors' report, click here.
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