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Veterans Affairs officials on Friday announced a new data-sharing partnership with 13 major health care systems across America to better track and improve veterans’ medical care. The agreement covers more than 250 hospitals and nearly 4,000 medical centers with hundreds of thousands of patients.

Under the Comprehensive Prevention, Access to Care and Treatment (COMPACT) Act, veterans in acute suicidal crises can receive free emergency care at any VA or non-VA health care facility.

The data-sharing pledge can help non-VA clinicians inform veterans about other VA programs, such as assistance for veterans experiencing food or housing insecurity.

“The data that we’re talking about isn’t always going to be clinical data. We’re very interested in what’s referred to as the administrative data, which talks about the benefits a veteran could potentially qualify for,” a VA official said.

The department is able to share veteran data with outside health care providers, VA officials said, because electronic health records have gotten to the point “where the next level of innovation can really happen.”

“We really want this to benefit the industry as a whole,” the VA official said. “As the technology advances, we really feel that VA has a leadership role. As the largest health care system in the country, the largest payer, we absolutely feel that responsibility to get out there and lead on what this could potentially look like.”

The VA is in the process of migrating to a new Oracle-Cerner EHR that’s interoperable with the Defense Department.



The following health care systems are participating in the VA’s data-sharing pledge:

Emory Healthcare
Inova
Jefferson Health
Sanford Health
UC Davis Health
Intermountain Health
Mass General Brigham
Rush Health
Tufts Medical Center
Marshfield Clinic
Kaiser Permanente Health Plan and Hospitals
UPMC
Atrium Health