Top information technology leaders from the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are joining forces to improve system interoperability and collaboration at a first-of-its-kind health care facility serving both active-duty service members and veterans.
Together, the Pentagon and VA have assembled a deep bench of experts to solve a perennial challenge for employees at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center near Chicago: how to work seamlessly and securely across DOD and VA networks in order to provide patients with top-level care.
“In the Department of Defense, we have constructed our networks to work together and to be secure,” said Leslie A. Beavers, DOD’s principal deputy chief information officer. “But we work increasingly with people outside of the immediate Department of Defense, and that’s the biggest challenge that we’ve been facing there at North Chicago, is integrating the Veterans Administration workforce with the Navy workforce that’s there in a meaningful fashion.”
The facility opened in 2010 as the first fully integrated DOD-VA health care facility serving both active-duty members and their families, military retirees and veterans enrolled in VA-provided health care…
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