Q&A: On driving common governance between the DoD and VA

Doug Felton is the manager of enterprise architecture for the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs – a role that gives him insight into inter-organizational space, otherwise known as IOS. At the GHIT 2011 show on June 14-15 in Washington D.C., Felton will lead a session in which he'll share some insights about common governance between the two agencies, mediating engineering processes and practical applications of such inter-organizational practices. Felton spoke with Government Health IT Editor Tom Sullivan about those topics, and how the political and policy landscape between the DoD and VA “are nicely aligned” for a project such as the joint EHR the agencies are building.