EHR Intelligence July 30, 2019
The federal agency is ready to process veteran EHRs to support interoperability between VA and DoD through its Cerner EHR transition.
VA successfully transferred 23.5 million veteran health records from its legacy VistA system to its new Cerner EHR platform as part of an effort to achieve interoperability with the Department of Defense (DoD).
The data migration phase of VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) project began in late spring.
“For decades, VA and DoD have been struggling to achieve interoperability and seamlessly share patient records between our health systems — placing an unfair burden on our Veterans and their families,” said VA Secretary Robert Wilkie. “No Veteran, family member or caregiver should have to carry boxes of paper, medical...