| Electronic Health Records: DOD and VA Should Remove Barriers and Improve Efforts to Meet Their Common System Needs |
Feb 2011 |
79 pages |
| Authors:
Valerie C Melvin; Mark T Bird; Bradley Becker; Jeremy Brodsky; Heather A Collins; Rebecca Eyler; Jacqueline Mai; Lee McCracken; Sylvia Shanks; Adam Vodraska; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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 | The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operate two of the nation's largest health care systems. To do so, both departments rely on electronic health record systems to create, maintain, and manage patient health information. DOD and VA are currently undertaking initiatives to modernize their respective systems, jointly establish the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), and develop joint information technology (IT) capabilities for the James ... |
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| Military Personnel. DOD's and the Coast Guard's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Programs Need to Be Further Strengthened |
24 Feb 2010 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
Brenda S Farrell; Randolph C Hite; Marilyn K Wasleski; Neelaxi Lakhmani; Divya Bali; Stacy Bennett; K N Harms; Jim La Due Houtz; Ron Lake; Kim Mayo; Adam Vodraska; Cheryl A Weissman; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| DOD has taken steps to implement our August 2008 recommendations to improve its sexual assault prevention and response program; however, its efforts reflect various levels of progress, and opportunities exist for further program improvements. To its credit, DOD has implemented four of the nine recommendations in our August 2008 report. First, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) established a working group to address our recommendation to evaluate the ... |
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| Defense Acquisitions: Actions Needed to Ensure Adequate Funding for Operation and Sustainment of the Ballistic Missile Defense System |
SEP 2005 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Robert E. Levin; Barbara Haynes; David Hand; Mary Quinlan; Adam Vodraska; Karen Sloan; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| In 2002, the Department of Defense (DOD) implemented a new acquisition model to develop a Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) that included all major missile defense acquisitions, some of which were being developed by the military services. The model called for the management and funding responsibility for production, operation, and sustainment of a capability to be transferred to a military service when a BMDS element or major component is technically ... |
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