Obama announces new veterans’ medical records system

[sabra]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The federal government is establishing a new system for updating medical records of servicemen and women both during and after their military careers, President Obama announced Thursday.

The Joint Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record will, among other things, help ensure a streamlined transition of health care records between the Pentagon and the Veterans Administration.

It will provide “a framework to ensure that all health care providers have all the information they need to deliver high-quality health care while reducing medical errors,” the White House noted in a background statement.

“When a member of the armed forces separates from the military, he or she will no longer have to walk paperwork from a (Defense Department) duty station to a local VA health center. Their electronic records will transition along with them and remain with them forever,” Obama said in remarks delivered near the White House.

The system will “cut through red tape” and allow new veterans to start receiving their benefits more quickly, he promised.

Read more: http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/09/obama-announces-new-veterans-medical-records-system/

[Cha]

1. This is what they said

they would get done. This should help Vets immeasurably!

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. BARACK IS STEALING THE VETS FROM THE REPUBS RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: HA HA HA :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[pfitz59]

3. Vets don't belong to any political party....

Obama reminds us of that!

[mopinko]

4. i'm sure bushie didn't know

where his own fucking medical records were. he never needed the va.

[pacalo]

5. Good point!

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Know where his records were? ferchrissake,

he didn't know where his fucken duty station was.

[mountainvue]

11. He didn't want to know where his medical records were. n/t

[Barack_America]

6. I hope this just builds on the medical records system they have for their hospitals...

That system is fantastic and it would be a shame to change it too much. But I highly welcome feeding more information into it.

[cap]

9. it sounds like it will be the interface between the military system and the va

and link the different va hospitals together

[Hope And Change]

7. K & R!

[jwirr]

10. Okay that sounds great but will it stop the "lost records" problem

that has faced many vets when they tried to qualify for war related injuries.

[mopinko]

12. it should make it harder.

especially as it sounds like they will have a case number that will stick with them.

[mopinko]

13. hmmm. bo does something good, and the thread sinks with 9 recs.

and diddly for replies. sigh.