Healthcare IT News October 26, 2021
The agency isn’t alone. As ONC head Micky Tripathi put it, “The fragmentation of the healthcare industry … is the biggest challenge we all face.”
As the largest integrated health system in the country, the Veterans Health Administration oversees care at hundreds of hospitals and health systems around the United States.
That’s a lot of patients: more than 9 million, to be specific. And caring for those patients, and stewarding their data, requires major infrastructure.
“In a healthcare system in 2021, data really serves as the basis for how decisions are made and how care is delivered,” said Kimberly McManus, White House Presidential Innovation Fellow at the VA’s Office of Information and Technology, during a symposium this week.
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