The old VA system was very good. They needed to just expand the old electronic VA medical records system into the military rather than force a new system on everyone.
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“The old VA system was very good.”
I thought it was horrible.
See my post above, tired&retired. Sometimes, especially with older systems, they must be replaced.
Some systems are very good, but they cannot be protected from malware or other electronic attack, they cannot be re-written to take into account concepts of healthcare that weren’t even around when the program was originally written, and so on.
Sometimes it cannot be done, and you have to make the change before you find out you are in hot water up to your neck and HAVE to make an emergency switch to a new system.
And THAT is NEVER good for anyone, patients, staff, IT, the taxpayers. EVERYONE is hurt there.
I agree. I live miles from the VAMC I go to for all my care. Miles translates into almost 90 miles. When I need to talk to someone after hours I call a regional VA number, speak with a nurse and, after reading my record, transfers me to an appropriate facility. It has proved to be faultess.
My PCP was and is able to acces my records since 2006 and pick out the pertinent information. Of course, I think she is the smartest woman the VA has ever hired. And, actually she may be.
Never have I had a problem of inaccessible medical information while at the VA.
Actually, I don’t “get” it why it has to be changed? I think someone decided to make some money.
And what will the programs like Myhealthevet.gov or the Million Vet programs do with their data? I have no idea about all the programs dependent on data will do in the VA system?
I smell a disaster, denial, and monstrous amounts of money to fix it.