Defense, VA Ehoose e-health Record Graphical User Interface

The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have selected a key component of the their joint electronic health record -- the graphical user interface, which clinicians will use to access records and radiological imagery, Roger Baker, VA's chief information officer, told a press briefing Friday.

Baker said the GUI was developed at the Tripler Army Medical Center and the co-located VA Medical Center in Honolulu. He said it allows clinicians to view information drawn from the Defense AHLTA electronic record and VA's Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) system as "a single medical record."

The GUI will also allow clinicians to pull and view medical imagery data from the two systems, said Baker, who called the GUI "production quality." He said the GUI will be installed at the North Chicago joint Navy-VA medical center later this year.