“The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are still trying to figure out how to best align their agencies’ respective plans to create a common Cerner electronic health record system.”
“Speaking on Wednesday at the HIMSS19 conference in Orlando, DoD and VA program officials said coordinating their activities to ensure interoperable EHR systems is a work in progress, emphasizing that the agencies continue to discuss an optimal organizational design that will facilitate coordinated decision-making and oversight when it comes to governance.”
“Toward that end, the DoD and VA Interagency Program Office is working to establish joint EHR modernization governance bodies to foster coordination and improve communication between the departments…”
“While DoD and VA have “spent a lot of time” sharing information and lessons learned, Cummings acknowledged that the two agencies “can benefit from being even closer than we are today…” Read the full article here.
Source: DoD and VA still working out how to create single HER – By Greg Slabodkin, February 14, 2019. HealthData Management.
