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Friday, July 22, 2016

Sharing Military Health Records Between VA and DOD Won’t Work, VA Official Says

By Alex Grubbs

A top IT official from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) told Congress that the VA is currently unable to maintain military health records on one system shared by the Department of Defense (DOD).  “The reality is there is no system that can support both DOD and the VA at the same time. It will not scale,” LaVerne Council, the VA’s assistant secretary for information and technology, testified at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veteran Affairs and Related Agencies hearing on the VA’s electronic health record system, VistA.
Scalability is the ability of a computer system to handle a growing volume of data.  “There is no system that will support all the things you have to do - to do the clinical management and the clinical operations......Read more...

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