From Nextgov.com: Industry group meets to consider upgrading VA patient record system
Part of the agenda includes possibility of making the aging but popular electronic health record system for veterans and their families a platform for a national network.
A blue-chip group of information technology companies met on Wednesday to consider the work required to modernize a decades-old federal electronic health record system that stores the medical files for millions of veterans and their families, with the underlying implication the system could become a platform for the national health record network President Obama envisions.
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