DoD, VA to pilot interface for new joint health record

The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs will take one of their first major steps toward a single, joint electronic health record next month. The system\...

The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs will take one of their first major steps toward a single, joint electronic health record next month. The system’s prototype graphical user interface will go online at a few selected clinics in Chicago. VA officials say they designed the interface by putting six clinicians in a room with a blank slate, and asking them what an ideal system would look like. The chief information officers of the two departments are meeting twice a week to plan the new system, which will take four to six years to fully develop.

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