Technology has the power to transform health care costs, outcomes and patient experience, and the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are committed to a collaborative approach that helps achieve these goals together.
“This endeavor to merge two health care systems together, in terms of situational awareness and the ability for information to flow back and forth is precedent setting. It has never been done before, bar none, across the nation,” said Debra Filippi, director of the departments of Defense/Veteran’s Affairs Interagency Program Office, in a discussion about the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center at the 2011 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference held in Orlando, Fla.