EHR Intelligence March 3, 2021
Christopher Jason

Health IT leaders at US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Indiana’s statewide health information exchange pointed at training and sustainability as two key implementation hurdles.

Health IT leaders at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) said the complex interrelationship correlation between local and national VA entities is a more significant technical obstacle than the interoperability between the two health IT systems, according to a study published in JMIR Medical Informatics.

In 2009, VA launched the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record Health interoperability program, which was later rebranded to the Veterans Health Information Exchange (VHIE) program.

Veteran patient records are available to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and outside providers. This interoperable patient record also allows the patient to...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Provider, Technology, VA / DoD
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