VA Health IT Receives Budget Boost

With budget cutting the buzzword of the day, Department of Veterans Affairs information technology projects nonetheless received healthy increases in funding in the proposed fiscal year 2012 federal government budget released Feb. 14.

With budget cutting the buzzword of the day, Department of Veterans Affairs information technology projects nonetheless received healthy increases in funding in the proposed fiscal year 2012 federal government budget released Feb. 14.

A new program called Health Informatics, unfunded in previous budgets, received an $8 million allocation in the White House budget, while the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), a joint Department of Defense/VA program, received nearly triple the funding, at $70 million, than in the 2010 budget.