The Department of Veterans Affairs is set to begin putting its new Enterprise Health Management Platform to the test.
The new interface was designed in-house using open source code and is said to be interoperable with the Defense Department's current health records, VA hospitals' and care centers' records and with the Pentagon's new commercial EHR system.
"What we have not always done, and we are creating now, is a system for providers at the point of care, taking care of veterans that natively integrates all of the data from both sides," David Waltman, a senior advisor for information strategy at VHA, said in a statement. "We are building this as a platform —a key difference than just building an application. It's designed for us to add things."
EHMP is also aims to mitigate prior complications with the accessibility of veteran health records by allowing VA caregivers access to all of their patient records across different facilities, regardless of the location of the patient or physician.
VA engineers have a software development kit in the works that will enable others to use the code to develop functional applications to interact with the system. That kit will also enable use of the code to outline standards for future solicitations, offering a framework to contractors to ensure that newly developed systems interact with EHMP efficiently.
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