VA Details Plans to Replace Medical-Scheduling Platform
20.05.12
The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched an initiative
to replace the medical-scheduling component of its electronic health record platform
and is requesting proposals for how to update and rebuild the application.
The Medical Scheduling
Package (MSP) is part of the VA's Veterans Health Information Systems and
Technology Architecture (VistA) EHR platform. VistA manages the clinical data
for patients throughout the VA health system.
Serving more than 8.3
million veterans per year, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
is the largest integrated health system in the United States, the VA reports.
More than 25 years old, the
current medical-scheduling application is unable to manage the complexities of
multiple business processes, according to the VA.
The VA aims to make data from
multiple VistA health centers interoperable rather than keep data separate and
provide a single view of patient scheduling as well as clinical histories.
Multiple locations would be able to schedule patient appointments.
Source: eWeek