U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Makes Interoperability Advancements to Improve Care for Veterans

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To streamline care for the nation’s veterans, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched VDIF EP (Veterans Data Integration and Federation Enterprise Platform) to produce a longitudinal patient record by aggregating and normalizing clinical data across its existing electronic medical record systems, enabling interoperability. This has been a goal of VA for more than a decade because a longitudinal patient record enables cli