Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record Health Program Aims To Improve Continuity Of Care For Veterans

The Department of Veterans Affairs Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System and specific community-based medical facilities in Northwest Florida have partnered together to share a limited amount of electronic Veteran patient data securely through the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record health program.

Veterans who receive care from VA and specific community-based medical facilities in Northwest Florida that have joined the Pensacola Health Information Exchange have to voluntarily opt-in VLER to take advantage of the program’s benefits.  Those benefits include reducingthe need for Veterans and families to carry records between health care providers, and allowing their private health care provider to make informed decisions about their care by having access to other medical data, such as a list of health problems, allergies, medications, vital signs, immunizations, and some laboratory test results.