VA's Levin: 'Blue Button' First Step to Lifetime EHR

The recently installed "blue button" on the Veteran Affairs Department's MyHealtheVet portal represents a first step toward the type of full access to their personal health records veterans can expect to see when the VA stands up the virtual lifetime electronic record (VLER).

That was how Peter Levin, the VA's chief technology officer described the relationship between the blue button project and VLER, the ambitious VA-Defense Department plan to track the health, benefits and administrative records of people from the day they are inducted into the military through the remainder of their lives as veterans...