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Military Health System taking electronic health record sharing to a new level
November 19, 2009 - 11:15am
Nov. 19, 2009 -- When a medic in Iraq or Afghanistan figures out a new technology to help them tend to wounded soldiers faster and better, the request must go through the theater experts for approval first. But Military Health System eventually has to turn the idea into reality.
Charles Campbell, the MHS chief information officer, says many times it's a matter of changing or adding on to a current system.
He says some ideas are a matter of new development and some are just modernizing existing systems.
Campbell spends a majority of his time working to make sure the Defense Department's systems fully integrate with those of the Veterans Affairs Department.
VA and DoD have made significant progress in sharing electronic medical records, including bi-directional information exchange.
Campbell says DoD and VA are moving more than 15 million electronic records to the Nationwide Health Information Network with the first pilot starting in late January.
After the initial test, DoD and VA will decide the next pilot site to make sure it works. But the January test will be the first time there is bi-directional data sharing across the Nationwide Health Information Network.
Charles Campbell, the MHS chief information officer, says many times it's a matter of changing or adding on to a current system.
He says some ideas are a matter of new development and some are just modernizing existing systems.
Campbell spends a majority of his time working to make sure the Defense Department's systems fully integrate with those of the Veterans Affairs Department.
VA and DoD have made significant progress in sharing electronic medical records, including bi-directional information exchange.
Campbell says DoD and VA are moving more than 15 million electronic records to the Nationwide Health Information Network with the first pilot starting in late January.
After the initial test, DoD and VA will decide the next pilot site to make sure it works. But the January test will be the first time there is bi-directional data sharing across the Nationwide Health Information Network.
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