MedVirginia first to connect to Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record

Community-based health information exchange (HIE) service provider MedVirginia has connected with the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), a collaboration between Veterans Affairs (VA), the Department of Defense (DoD) and civilian health systems to connect the health records of the active duty military personnel and veterans in the U.S.

For this initiative, the Richmond, Va.-based MedVirginia is leveraging its open-source CONNECT gateway to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) in order to enable clinical information exchange based on the continuity-of-care document C32 format.

MedVirginia connected four healthcare facilities in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia for VLER: Mary Immaculate Hospital, DePaul Medical Center, Maryview Medical Center and Harbour View Health Center. All four facilities are part of the Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System.

MedVirginia also has deployed means for civilian physicians outside DoD and VA to query for information about their patients who are military personnel and participating veterans, the organization added.

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