Congress, Experts Call For Standard Military EHR
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| The House and Senate are expected to ask the Departments of Defense
| and Veterans Affairs to use the same electronic health record system,a
| practice experts say would be helpful because the agencies treat a
| similar group of patients, Government Health IT reports.
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| Joseph Dal Molin - a director of the not-for-profit WorldVistA,
| which promotes the use of open source VistA software - said that if
| the DOD used VistA "[i]t would lower software costs for both
| organizations." He added that if the DOD adopted the VA's EHRa
| rchitecture, both organizations would benefit from individual andj
| oint development efforts (Brewin, Government Health IT, 8/7).
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http://www.ihealthbeat.org/index.cfm?Action=dspItem&itemID=124002
This relates to an earlier article about the NHS (poor inter-site
comminication and uptime), a system that locks doctors out of their
patients' data (due to licensing) and a parking facility that was besieged
(also due to licences).
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