Medication Use among Veterans across Health Care Systems.
Dual healthcare system use can create gaps and fragments of information for patient care. The Department of Veteran Affairs is implementing a health information exchange (HIE) program called the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), which allows providers to access and share information across healthcare systems. HIE has the potential to improve the safety of medication use. However, data regarding the pattern of outpatient medication use across systems of care is [...]
Author(s): Nguyen, Khoa A, Haggstrom, David A, Ofner, Susan, Perkins, Susan M, French, Dustin D, Myers, Laura J, Rosenman, Marc, Weiner, Michael, Dixon, Brian E, Zillich, Alan J
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2016-10-RA-0184