The VA's National Solution Could Point the WayThe VA's National Solution Could Point the Way
March 1, 2005
Originally Published MX March/April 2005
IT IN HEALTHCARE
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) uses a single electronic health record system known as VistA (for Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture) throughout its 157 hospitals and 862 outpatient clinics. While many VA medical centers have local interfaces between their bedside monitors and VistA, the VA has not adopted a single interface for nationwide application. But that will soon change as the department prepares to implement a national solution that conforms with messaging standards such as HL7, DICOM, and IEEE 1073.
Julius Chou |
"We're currently working with several vendors to try to establish a standard interface," says Julius Chou, associate deputy director for provider systems in the Veterans Health Administration Office of Information Health Systems Design and Development. "It'll probably be accomplished in a short period of time."
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