“With the effort to make electronic health records interoperable at the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, the agencies’ collaboration indicates positive synergy, newly established leadership and an effort to institutionalize the project have helped the electronic health record initiative grow significantly over the past year.”
“When Defense Healthcare Management Systems Program Executive Officer Bill Tinston was appointed to the role in March, the vision for the interoperable, single-record Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization was there, but he has seen it grow and make significant strides over the course of this year, particularly on the structure of VA and DOD’s collaboration…”
“Major milestones that VA and DOD have reached through their work together include Congress’ appointment of Dr. Neil Evans, chief officer for the Office of Connected Care in the Veterans Health Administration, as interim director of FEHRM and Defense Health Management Systems Deputy Program Executive Officer Holly Joers as interim deputy director. Establishing this leadership helps cement FEHRM institutionally between VA and DOD, Tinston added…”
“Institutionalizing the joint practices, architectures and environment management groups are other ways that Tinston said VA and DOD are trying to make their FEHRM collaboration more permanent. In the coming months, the institutionalization will come into fruition, Tinston added, as well as the implementation of the collaborative practices VA and DOD have developed together for FEHRM…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA, DOD Partnership Has Accelerated Progress on Single Health Record – By Melissa Harris, November 26, 2019. GovernmentCIO.
