Posts Tagged ‘VA’
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0 Trouble on the Health Information Highway: VA Closes Off Access to the Defense Department's EHR System
Mar 8, 2010. Government Initiatives, Health Information Technology.Early last week, the Department of Veterans Affairs found errors in some patients’ medical data that clinicians downloaded from the Defense network. While these errors were not linked to any adverse events, such errors are raising flags that software glitches could compromise the accuracy of electronic medical records. Further, such inaccuracies in patient records could have serious implications for the planned National Health Information Infrastructure.
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0 White House Announces Plan to Integrate DOD and VA EHRs
Apr 15, 2009. Today.The Obama administration announced this week that the Departments of Defense(DOD) and Veterans Affairs(VA) will finally create a path to integrate the flow of patients’ information between DOD’s AHLTA and the VA’s VistA EHR platforms. Each of the disparate systems in and of themselves represents a successful implementation of EHRs, however until now there has been little or no ability to transfer patient data between the two systems.
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