DOD, VA to offer electronic health records in Hampton Roads

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By Lauren King
The Virginian-Pilot
© March 9, 2010

The Hampton Roads area was chosen to participate in a pilot program to create electronic health records for military members and veterans.

The Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record Health Communities Program shares health information using the Nationwide Health Information Network. The idea is to help reduce the loss of paper health records and ensure providers have the all of a patient's health information.

Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department began the program in San Diego and is expanding to southeastern Virginia because of its high concentration of veterans, military retirees, members of the guard and reserve and active duty service members and their family members, a news release said.

Service members and veterans will be invited to participate. The program begins this year. Participants allow their public and private health care providers and doctors to share specific health information electronically.

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Hold on to your tinfoil hats!

Submitted by bornfree on Tue, 03/09/2010 at 5:25 pm.

The next thing you know they'll be implanting microchips under our skin and tattoing bar codes on our wrists just before they send us off to FEMA reeducation camps. They won't get me. I'm armed to the teeth and I've got a year's worth of food and water stockpiled. I'll be danged if I'll want some emergency room doc knowing my bloodtype or drug interactions in case of an emergency.

The Bigger Picture

Submitted by JEngdahlJ on Mon, 03/08/2010 at 11:52 pm.

Federal funding may be encouraging a move toward EHR, but there's more to it than just installing systems. How can healthcare data pooling lead to a better system? More at http://www.healthcaretownhall.com/?p=2193

Identity theft gets another loophole.

Submitted by keithh41833 on Mon, 03/08/2010 at 9:13 pm.

Yes! And another great way for identity theft to soar like an eagle. Here we have the military medical profession and coming soon, the private medical profession about to put personal medical records and confidential information in electronic format about DOD personnel and VETS which are all keyed on their SSN's and birthdates where some bafoon will have them on a laptop that will get stolen out of the back seat of their car, or will leave it on a train, or it will get hacked into and someone from China or Russia and it will get sold or someone will buy a new Mercedes Benz in your name. Of course no one's head will roll and no one will be able to prove who was irresponsible with those records. You personally will be on your own to straighten it out. Thanks, but no thanks.

your info already out there

Submitted by vbbum on Tue, 03/09/2010 at 1:11 pm.

This from a person who gave up personal information to to post his rant

What's your point?

Submitted by keithh41833 on Tue, 03/09/2010 at 8:54 pm.

I am not in the military. I also didn't give permission for my personal medical files to be digitized and sent to every hospital in the country. Perhaps you will be so lucky as to experience YOUR identity stolen from some idiot who sells you out. Have fun paying for that new Lexus that you "really" don't own.