| Description |
1 online resource (ii, 73 p.) |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 3, 2011). |
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"February 2011." |
| Summary |
The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operate two of the nation's largest health care systems. To do so, both departments rely on electronic health record systems to create, maintain, and manage patient health information. DOD and VA are currently undertaking initiatives to modernize their respective systems, jointly establish the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), and develop joint information technology (IT) capabilities for the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC). In light of these efforts, GAO was asked to (1) identify any barriers that DOD and VA face in modernizing their electronic health record systems to jointly address their common health care business needs, and (2) identify lessons learned from DOD's and VA's efforts to jointly develop VLER and to meet the health care information needs for the FHCC. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
"GAO-11-265." |
| Subject |
United States. Department of Defense -- Rules and practice.
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United States. Department of Veterans Affairs -- Rules and practice.
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Medical records -- United States -- Data processing.
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Medical records -- United States -- Management.
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Medical Records Systems, Computerized -- United States. |
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Electronic Health Records -- organization & administration -- United States. |
| Added Title |
Electronic health records : Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs should remove barriers and improve efforts to meet their common system needs |
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DOD and VA should remove barriers and improve efforts to meet their common system needs |
| Gpo Item No. |
0546-D (online) |
| Sudoc No. |
GA 1.13:GAO-11-265 |
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