FYI. Big news. Roger
--------------------- Senate directs DOD to use VA EHR architecture Bob Brewin, Govt. Health IT July 26, 2006 http://govhealthit.com/article95423-07-26-06-Web The Senate directed the Defense Department to adopt the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health record (EHR) architecture in its version of the VA 2007 Appropriations bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on July 21. In its version of the 2007 VA appropriations bill, passed last month, the House Appropriations Committee’s Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee used similar language, directing DOD and the VA to adopt identical software, data standards and data repositories for their EHR systems. Both bills now go to a conference between the two branches of Congress, and if the intent of the language in both makes it through that process, DOD and the VA would end up using the same EHR to serve a population of 9.2 million active-duty and retired personnel in the Military Health System (MHS) and roughly 5 million veterans who use VA health care facilities.... -- Roger A. Maduro LxIS 117 Davis Ave. SW Leesburg, VA 20175 (571) 217-6921 -- Roger A. Maduro LxIS 117 Davis Ave. SW Leesburg, VA 20175 (571) 217-6921 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
