VA, Kaiser partner to improve data sharing
The Veterans Health Administration (VA) and Kaiser Permanente (KP) will pool their resources to research and share best practices.
The organizations announced the Veterans Affairs Center of Innovation Partnership Program, which will focus on connected health and virtual care, genomics, VA and KP patients and advanced analytics to leverage innovative uses of large datasets and population management.
"We are eager to continue to redesign the experience of our veterans seeking healthcare to increase ease of access and quality of services," said Patrick Littlefield, director of the VA Center for Innovation, in a release. "We're excited about this partnership to make way for useful and tangible outputs."
In 2010, KP and VA launched a pilot program to exchange medical data using the Nationwide Health Information Network. The pilot allows clinicians from both organizations to obtain a more comprehensive view of a patient's health record using EHR information, and led to the VA exchange capability now available at 121 VA medical center locations nationwide with 14 private partners.
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