Electronic health records
Subtitle: DOD and VA should remove barriers and improve efforts to meet their common system needs : report to Congressional committees
Publisher: U.S. Govt. Accountability Office
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 73
Subjects: Rules and practice; Medical records; Data processing; Management; Computerized Medical Records Systems; Electronic Health Records; Organization & administration; United States. Department of Defense; United States; United States. Department of Veterans Affairs
Other titles: Electronic health records :; DOD and VA should remove barriers and improve efforts to meet their common system needs
Description: The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operate two of the nation's largest health care systems. To do so, both departments rely on electronic health record systems to create, maintain, and manage patient health information. DOD and VA are currently undertaking initiatives to modernize their respective systems, jointly establish the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), and develop joint information technology (IT) capabilities for the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC). In light of these efforts, GAO was asked to (1) identify any barriers that DOD and VA face in modernizing their electronic health record systems to jointly address their common health care business needs, and (2) identify lessons learned from DOD's and VA's efforts to jointly develop VLER and to meet the health care information needs for the FHCC.
Notes: Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 3, 2011).

"February 2011."

"GAO-11-265."

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