“The Department of Veterans Affairs is working with the Department of Defense to accelerate the authoritative use of digital military discharge form data for veterans services.”
“Issued by DOD upon a service member’s retirement, separation or discharge from any military branch, the DD 214 summarizes their service, medals and awards. The form is also the basis of reintegration into civilian life and required for a veteran to opt into VA services like college education discounts, hiring preference, loans, medical benefits, and funeral arrangements.”
“VA and DOD are improving data interoperability across the board through their Joint Executive Committee. And together they’re in the early stages of forming a DD 214 action plan, Kshemendra Paul, chief data officer at VA, told FedScoop after the 2020 Health IT Summit on Thursday…”
“VA wants to get to the point where it can accept DD 214 information authoritatively from DOD and not have to ask the veteran, Paul said during a panel discussion. That’s currently VA’s policy in some cases but not all.”
“At root it’s a change management issue, where VA and DOD must ‘harmonize’ their policy frameworks, Paul said…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA looks to streamline use of military discharge data – Dave Nyczepir, January 17, 2020. FedScoop.
