LXer: HITS: Bill to Unify VA and DOD EHR
 

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Health IT Strategist isreporting that a bill has been introduced to congress to unify the DOD and Veterans Affairs EMR/EHR software systems:'...Joseph Dal Molin - a director of the not-for-profitWorldVistA, which promotes the use of open source VistA software - said that if the DOD used VistA"[i]t would lower software costs for both organizations." He added that if the DOD adopted the VA's EHR architecture, both organizations would benefit from individual and joint development efforts...'

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