Sharing Health Records for Servicemembers and Veterans
Posted on July 25, 2014
The Departments of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) operate two of the nation’s largest health care systems, providing care to more than 9.6 million active-duty servicemembers and 6.3 million veterans. For many years, DOD and VA have known that better sharing of health care data could help them:
- make patient information more available to health care providers;
- reduce medical errors; and
- streamline administrative functions to save time and money.
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