The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs and the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office have jointly installed a single, fully integrated electronic health record system at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, Illinois.
The Federal EHR system will enable Lovell FHCC to streamline the delivery of care to approximately 75,000 patients annually and support secure data sharing across multiple organizations, the VA said Saturday.
“A joint electronic health record system demonstrates the power of technology to improve health care delivery, and we look forward to continued collaboration with our VA partners,” said Lester Martinez-Lopez, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs.
Bill Tinston, director of the Federal EHR Modernization office, said that the joint deployment at Lovell FHCC will “significantly advance interoperability” among joint sites that require shared tools to provide care effectively.
Lovell FHCC is the only fully integrated health care system jointly run by the VA and DOD.
DOD has completed this installation of the Federal EHR, which it refers to as MHS GENESIS, in all military hospitals and clinics worldwide.
