The Cutting Edge of Medical Technology Content, Community & Collaboration
Timberlake aims at full DOD-VA health info exchange
Colleagues,
As reported in Government Health IT ... Will the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments be able to achieve full interoperability of their electronic medical records by a congressional deadline set for September 2009?
“The congressional mandate did not define the term ‘full interoperability,’” said Rear Adm. Gregory Timberlake, director of the Interagency Program Office at the Defense Department-Veterans Affairs Department.
That said, “I think we will be able to meet the deadline,” Timberlake added.
“We have gone to clinicians and asked them what they need to treat patients,” Timberlake said. “We have built a process to get to full interoperability for the information the clinicians have identified that they need to treat patients.”
This includes six classes of data beyond that covered by current DOD/VA interoperability: prescriptions, laboratory results, radiology results, and physician, nursing, and therapist notes.
To date, the departments have undertaken this project by creating incremental information sharing systems. These include the Bidirectional Health Information Exchange (BHIE), which provides a real-time interface between AHLTA, DOD’s electronic health record system, VistA, the VA’s electronic health record system and the Clinical Data Repository/Health Data Repository (CHDR), which combines both systems’ data repositories to enable the exchange of drug interaction and allergy information for shared patients.
Read on at: http://govhealthit.com/articles/2009/03/05/dod-va-health-info-excha...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in Government Health IT ... Will the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments be able to achieve full interoperability of their electronic medical records by a congressional deadline set for September 2009?
“The congressional mandate did not define the term ‘full interoperability,’” said Rear Adm. Gregory Timberlake, director of the Interagency Program Office at the Defense Department-Veterans Affairs Department.
That said, “I think we will be able to meet the deadline,” Timberlake added.
“We have gone to clinicians and asked them what they need to treat patients,” Timberlake said. “We have built a process to get to full interoperability for the information the clinicians have identified that they need to treat patients.”
This includes six classes of data beyond that covered by current DOD/VA interoperability: prescriptions, laboratory results, radiology results, and physician, nursing, and therapist notes.
To date, the departments have undertaken this project by creating incremental information sharing systems. These include the Bidirectional Health Information Exchange (BHIE), which provides a real-time interface between AHLTA, DOD’s electronic health record system, VistA, the VA’s electronic health record system and the Clinical Data Repository/Health Data Repository (CHDR), which combines both systems’ data repositories to enable the exchange of drug interaction and allergy information for shared patients.
Read on at: http://govhealthit.com/articles/2009/03/05/dod-va-health-info-excha...
ENJOY!
CC
Views: 2
MedTechIQ VideoLibrary
Upcoming Events
© 2024 Created by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight.
Powered by
