The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun adding information from veterans' electronic health records to their personal health records and will introduce more data from the EHRs every few weeks, Government Health IT reports.
The program, which has not yet been widely announced, is available to all 7.6 million VA patients. The more than 1,100 veterans who have already signed up for the program now can view the medications dispensed to them by the Veterans Health Administration and enter medications they receive from other sources into their MyHealtheVet records, according to Ginger Price, director of the MyHealtheVet program.
The VHA next will add a calendar of patient appointments to the record system, and in March, chemistry and blood test data will be stored in the records. The records later will contain information on allergies, immunizations and discharge summaries, according to Government Health IT.
Pirce said that "most of the key portions of this information will be available to [veterans] electronically" by December.
More than 1,100 veterans have signed up for the MyHealthVet program, which requires veterans to enroll in person to ensure privacy. The program was tested with 7,500 veterans in nine VA medical centers (Ferris, Government Health IT, 1/24).