Electronic Health Record: Program Office Improvements Needed to Strengthen Management of VA and DOD Efforts to Achieve Full Interoperability

Abstract

For over a decade, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have been working on initiatives to share electronic health information. To expedite their efforts, Congress mandated in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 that VA and DOD establish a joint interagency program office to act as a single point of accountability in the development of electronic health records systems or capabilities that allow for full interoperability (generally, the ability of systems to exchange data) by September 30, 2009. In this statement, GAO summarizes findings from its upcoming report, focusing on progress in setting up the interagency program office and the departments' actions to achieve fully interoperable capabilities by September 30, 2009. To do so, GAO analyzed agency documentation on project status and conducted interviews with agency officials.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 14, 2009
Accession Number
AD1173568

Entities

People

  • Valerie C. Melvin

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • Accountability
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Digital Communications
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Health Care Facilities
  • Health Informatics
  • Health Services
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Military Medicine
  • Personnel Management
  • Program Management
  • United States
  • United States Government

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