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SPOTLIGHT: VA expects VLER to be nationwide by 2012
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to have the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER)--a seamless EMR shared by the VA and Defense Department to track each service member from enlistment... Read more...
VA preparing to re-start health data exchange with DoD
The Department of Veterans Affairs may have already made a decision to restart health data exchange with the Department of Defense, slightly more than a week after cutting off access to Military... Read more...
VA issues first contract for EMR integration with Pentagon
Following several delays and the revelation that an obscure office without a permanent director was in charge of integrating medical records between the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments, the... Read more...
Contracting questions could delay DoD-VA EMR integration by two years
A "potentially unethical" relationship between a federal employee and a government contractor is the reason for the delay of the integration of EMR systems at the Departments of Defense and Veterans... Read more...
VA finishes interoperability phase of DoD record integration
The Department of Veterans Affairs has finished the interoperability portion of its massive, three-stage effort with the Department of Defense to create a single, lifelong EHR for service members,... Read more...
Military Health System extends two EMR support contracts
The Military Health System has extended two key contracts to support its Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) system, which the Pentagon calls the world's largest and most... Read more...
Pentagon EHR contract award under investigation
The Pentagon is investigating allegations by a Military Health System employee that the MHS improperly awarded a contract to a small but well-connected IT firm to help build an EHR system that is... Read more...
VA, DoD will meet EMR interoperability deadline
The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs will have the "core capabilities" of a single, interoperable EMR in place by a Sept. 30 deadline, Government Health IT reports. Speaking at a... Read more...
