Fierce Healthcare September 14, 2018
Questions remain about the best oversight structure to improve interoperability between the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
How hard could it be to get the Department of Veterans Affairs to the Department of Defense to create electronic health records that will talk to each other?
As a hearing on Capitol Hill demonstrated on Thursday, it’s more complicated than one might expect.
As the VA forges ahead with its Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program, the leading question of the day was just how to create an oversight structure to improve its interoperability with DOD.
Right now, the VA/DOD Interagency Program Office (IPO) oversees the interoperability efforts between the two agencies, but that joint body does not have...