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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Veterans Administration gets vets records from DoD on paper

Heard an interesting news story on the radio yesterday, and repeated on news video at Yahoo News.

The US VA computers do not have access to the medical records of their patients that are on computers at the DoD.

I can see how there are inherent problems to be overcome.

Hospitals in the US have had a standard file format for medical records for decades called HL7.

Well, it is a start.

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posted by John Collins | 7:44 AM

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