IDGA summit examines health information systems for future initiatives

For over a decade, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs have been pursuing initiatives to share data between their health information systems. Benchmarks have been made and many have been met along the way; however, the immediate future still poses many challenges. IDGA’s Electronic Health Records Summit is designed to briefly examine the “lessons learned” thus far, but with the objective of how to apply these to future initiatives, including President Obama’s recent call for a Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER).

The discussions will also include the underlying theme of how the work with a VLER and VA/DoD efforts thus far will correlate with the administration’s recent request for nationwide EHR systems to be implemented.

IDGA’s Electronic Health Records Summit is scheduled for October 26 – 28, 2009 at the Sheraton Premiere at Tysons Corner, Vienna, VA.

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