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The Veterans Affairs Department rolled out a new identifier to create a single, lifetime electronic health record lasting from time of enlistment to death.
The program stems from 2004 Homeland Security Presidential Directive that established common identification standards for all federal employees and contractors. A 10-digit will be used in VA information systems and the department will pair it with an existing identifier in VA systems.
According to ExecutiveGov: “It will streamline information exchange efforts between Defense and VA IT systems. The identifier will be able to connect the departments' exchanges of information on issues like joint indemnity repositories, the VA master patient index, the Defense clinical data repository and the AHLTA electronic health record system.”
Nextgov.com reported VA CIO Roger Baker said the identifier will apply universally to all beneficiaries while supporting data exchange for a joint project with the Defense Department.
