Friday, February 16, 2007

Supporting the veterans

With excellent health care:

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 Trauma center doctors in the United States can't access medical information needed to treat soldiers severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Physicians at four Veterans Administration trauma centers were receiving complete digital records from the Pentagon until the end of January when access to the Joint Patient Tracking Application was suddenly cut off, The Washington Post reports.
The action was ordered by the director of the Pentagon's Health Deployment Systems who said federal regulations and public law required that data use agreements and controls be in place in order for the physicians to use the system.

Since the cutoff, there have been meetings between the VA and Pentagon officials but access has yet to be restored.

Digital medical records track the care given wounded troops from the moment of their arrival at a field hospital through their evacuation to the United States.

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