{"id":26135,"date":"2011-08-09T13:32:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T17:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26135"},"modified":"2011-08-09T13:32:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T17:32:19","slug":"dod-and-va-still-cant-share-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26135","title":{"rendered":"DoD and VA still can’t share records"},"content":{"rendered":"

SO here we are, two years after the Defense Department and the Veterans Affairs Department agreed to provide a seamless transition for transitioning service members’ health records between the agencies and they still can’t get the job done. In fact, they estimate it’ll take six more years to complete the project says Leo Shane at Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Information technology experts say departmental infighting is hobbling the effort, and question whether the agencies will be able to stick to even the six-year estimate, considering their rocky past.<\/p>\n

Veterans groups are frustrated as well, especially with a wave of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans already beginning to seek health care services at VA facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery year they talk about a new plan,\u201d said Jacob Gadd, Deputy Director for Health Care at the American Legion. \u201cThey just need to pick one that works and move forward already.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, how many of you spend that much time picking software? But who is surprised? Certainly not me. At Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the premiere health care facility in the country, the Army can’t share medical records between clinics in the same building, let alone with the DVA.<\/p>\n

As I’ve written before, I have complete confidence in the doctors and nurses at Walter Reed, but the administration sucks canal water. I could have two or three appointments on the same day and fill out the same forms for each clinic because there’s no file-sharing network in the hospital. <\/p>\n

Now when I retired in 1994, my records were sent by the Army automatically to the VA facility near my home who immediately contacted me and set up appointments for me. What the hell happened between 1994 and now that the two agencies are fighting over interoperability?<\/p>\n

I’m sure it’s contractors who are fighting over whose crap they’ll use. Fire ’em! Anyone who is working for the Defense Department and Veterans Affairs and doesn’t put 100% of their efforts towards the welfare of the troops…just send ’em down the road with empty pockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SO here we are, two years after the Defense Department and the Veterans Affairs Department agreed … DoD and VA still can’t share records<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}