VA Details Plans to Replace Medical-Scheduling Platform

The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched an initiative to replace the medical-scheduling component of its electronic health record platform and is requesting proposals for how to update and rebuild the application. The Medical Scheduling Package (MSP) is part of the VA's Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) EHR platform. VistA manages the clinical data for patients throughout the VA health system...

The VA aims to make data from multiple VistA health centers interoperable rather than keep data separate and provide a single view of patient scheduling as well as clinical histories. Multiple locations would be able to schedule patient appointments...