Veterans Disability Lawyer
We
have written about this before, the need for VA
and DOD to be able to communicate on the
medical records front. It seemed that DOD and VA recognized the
importance of this issue and were working on a joint solution. Now we
learn the joint project is off. Both departments, including an
interagency program office created to oversee joint electronic health records
initiatives, spent more than $1 billion on their most recent efforts to build a
joint system. The project costs have reportedly ballooned from an
estimated $4 billion to $12 billion.
DOD
is going to look to a commercial solution to Electronic Health Records (HER).
The need to coordinate with VA still exists. Will the commercial solution
be able to communicate seamlessly with VA's system. We are told it will
but the DOD system may cost $16 billion. We are not left with a great deal of
confidence in the new direction. The problem of lack of coordinated EHR
may continue for years.
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