{"id":56561,"date":"2014-11-20T09:31:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T14:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56561"},"modified":"2014-11-20T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T14:37:43","slug":"56561","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56561","title":{"rendered":"About Those Online VA Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard about the troubles the VA has been having lately. But give them credit where credit is due.<\/p>\n<p>Take their new online system, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myhealth.va.gov\/index.html\">MyHealtheVet<\/a>. It\u2019s a way you can sign up to do a load of stuff online related to VA healthcare. You can check appointments, access medical records, renew prescriptions, and stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p>Or so I\u2019m told. I don\u2019t have an account.<\/p>\n<p>And given what is says in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/670\/666968.pdf\">little GAO report<\/a> \u2013 and the multiple VA data breaches that seem to happen periodically \u2013 maybe not having an account is a good thing. Seems like the VA\u2019s IT security still kinda, well . . . sucks.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, take MyHealtheVet. Please. And secure the damn thing &#8211; along with the rest of the VA\u2019s IT systems.<\/p>\n<p>Because until then, getting on-line access to your electronic information at the VA certainly sounds like a case of <em>caveat emptor<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard about the troubles the VA has been having lately. But give them credit &hellip; <a title=\"About Those Online VA Systems\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56561\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Those Online VA Systems<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56561","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}