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On Thursday 27 July 2006 10:35, Roger A Maduro wrote:

FYI. Big news.

Roger

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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....

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Roger A. Maduro

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117 Davis Ave. SW

Leesburg, VA 20175

(571) 217-6921

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Nancy Anthracite

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