The Department of Defense (DoD) Healthcare Management System Modernization program is reviewing feedback from industry regarding minimum infrastructure specifications required to run an EHR.
Specifically, the agency is looking for recommendations on specifications including hosting, network, device and site characteristics information, according to its notice of request for information.
In 2013, the DoD and the Department of Veterans Affairs canceled plans to integrate their EHRs, and announced that they are instead focusing on making their current systems interoperable. Earlier this year, Congress passed funding restrictions to both agency’s EHR systems so they can only spend 25 percent of their budgets until they share with legislators how they will comply with data standards, advance interoperability and, for the DoD, what the full cost of the new EHR will be.
DoD recently announced it would keep its current EHR system through 2018, and begin launching its new system in phases from 2016 to 2019. Source
