Lessons Learned? Assuring Healthy Initiatives in Health Information Technology

Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security

Thursday, June 22, 2006
02:30 PM

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Brief Description of the hearing:

The Office of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) play critical roles in the advancement of a national strategy for electronic health records. Recent analysis by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of the VA and DoD health care information sharing systems and programs developed so far indicate that opportunities remain to implement cost-saving measures, maximize resources, share critical strategic planning information, and to determine programmatic performance measures.

Witnesses

Panel 1

• Ms. Jodi Daniel [view testimony]
  Director
  Office of Policy and Research, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Health and Human Services
• Ms. Linda Koontz [view testimony]
  Director, Information Management Issues
  U.S. Government Accountability Office
• Mr. Carl E. Hendricks [view testimony]
  Chief Information Officer for the Military Health System (MHS)
  U.S. Department Of Defense
• Dr. Michael Kussman [view testimony]
  Deputy Under Secretary for Health
  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• Robert Howard
  Supervisor, Office of Information and Technology
  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• Dr. Ross Fletcher
  Chief of Staff
  VA Medical Center Washington D.C.