PARCA eNews – Nov. 20, 2015 – The Defense Department has met the interoperability requirements for electronic health records as called for in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014, according to DoD officials.
DoD and Veterans Affairs have two goals in integrating patients' records and making the information accessible by both agencies, said Chris Miller, the program executive officer for
Defense Healthcare Management Systems. Those goals, he said, are to create a seamless health record, and modernize the software that clinicians and analysts in both agencies use.
"At the end of the day, I think it comes down to some pretty basic things," Miller said in a media roundtable at his Arlington, Virginia, office yesterday. "Are we able to share information and are people able to use that information to accomplish their job on the other side?"
There are multiple electronic health record systems within DoD. The first steps in building the integrated system included making sure officials knew where all the data was, and agreeing to common terms using national standards.
The web-based, integrated system, called the Joint Legacy Viewer, or JLV, is secure, Miller said. A user needs government credentials to log in, and the system keeps track of who accessed a person's record.
The JLV can be viewed by DoD and VA personnel. Benefit analysts use the information for disability evaluations.
The NDAA required all data in DoD's Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application outpatient system be shared in compliance with existing national standards.
Kendall said the DoD exceeded NDAA requirements by integrating data from other DoD systems, including inpatient, theater and pharmacy.
Source: DOD press release
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