DoD, VA vow interoperability between new health IT systems

Federal Times: One of the central priorities of the Department of Defense's multibillion-dollar Defense Health Management System Modernization (DHMSM) contract awarded last week is a requirement that any new electronic health records management system be interoperable with the one used by the Veterans Affairs Department.

After the two agencies failed to agree on a single health records management system back in 2013, it was determined that the DoD system would work with VA's Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA).

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