The following resources provide helpful information for Veterans and other stakeholders on VA’s effort to roll out the Federal electronic health record (EHR) at its medical facilities nationwide.
How VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization Effort Will Benefit Veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is modernizing its EHR across the nation. The Federal EHR will ultimately simplify the experience for Veterans and their health care teams, enhance standardization across VA and improve interoperability between VA, federal partners and the rest of the U.S. health care system. The Federal EHR equips VA staff with new and innovative data analytics and Veteran care management tools that will provide them deeper insights into Veteran health issues—improving clinical decisions and health care outcomes for Veterans as individuals and as a patient population overall.
What Veterans Need to Know: How VA’s Health Record System is Changing
Our nation’s Veterans deserve high-quality health care, including access to a comprehensive EHR that eliminates the need to manage cumbersome printed health records, endure repeat tests or relay basic information, such as drug allergies, to different providers. The Federal EHR will help improve the delivery of care and simplify the patient experience.
A New Online Patient Portal for Veterans
VA’s implementation of the Federal EHR introduces a new patient portal called My VA Health, which will complement VA’s existing patient portal. As VA medical facilities implement the EHR system, Veterans will be able to use My VA Health to refill and renew prescriptions, schedule appointments, and message their providers to better manage their health care.
Veteran User Guide
The purpose of this user guide is to familiarize Veterans with VA’s new My VA Health patient portal and to point out its important features. The My VA Health patient portal is being used at facilities using the Federal EHR.
Navigating My VA Health: Secure Messaging
Learn more about how to use the Secure Messaging feature within the My VA Health portal with this infographic and video below.
