“Overseeing arguably the largest health IT modernization effort at the Department of Veterans Affairs, recently appointed VA CIO James Gfrerer is working to improve the tools and services that veterans, like himself, can access as VA health care patients.”
“Application Programming Interfaces
Among those efforts is the VA’s Lighthouse program, an application programming interface (API) framework that grants the use of VA data with veteran’s consent to third-party developers…”
“MISSION Act and DST
By June, the VA is on track to have the MISSION Act implemented. The legislation would give veterans the option of community care when the VA is unable to meet its needs in terms of wait time, service availability and other criteria.”
“To support the decision-making process, VA developed the Decision Support Tool, which integrates information across several legacy systems, Gfrerer explained, and helps clinicians determine veteran eligibility for community care…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA CIO: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going – By Faith Ryan, April 23, 2019. GovernmentCIO.
