The Spokane (Wash.) VA Medical Center and Fairchild Air Force Case, located just outside of Spokane, Wash., will work with a Spokane health information exchange network, Inland Northwest Health Services, to make medical records of veterans and other service members available to their federal healthcare providers. The VLER pilot is the latest move in a federal program aimed to share veterans’ medical records over the nationwide health information network.
Inland Northwest Health Services is a network of 38 hospitals, including 4,000 physicians and 3.5 million electronic medical records, according to the report. Thousands of active military servicemen are stationed at Fairchild, with thousands of veterans residing in the Spokane area.
More than half of veterans and active duty personnel receive some healthcare from private healthcare providers, making it critical that federal programs and private healthcare providers be able to access and exchange clinical records for efficient and effective treatment, according to the report.
Read the Government Health IT report about the VLER pilot in Washington.
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