Navy Recruits First to Enjoy Lifetime Electronic Health Care Record

The health care records of new Navy recruits now will be virtually electronic for their entire career as an active duty and veteran member of the service. That’s because all Navy recruits have their records loaded into systems at new James A. Lovell Health Care Center in Chicago, which recently merged together two separate Navy and Veterans Affairs hospital facilities.

While both departments are still working out the details on how to share information and modernize old records, for new recruits the movement of health data is virtually entirely electronic, said Col. Claude Hines Jr., program manager for the Defense Health Information Management System. Hines was part of a panel of civilian and uniformed experts who discussed the state of military health care IT on Aug. 9 at AFCEA’s Warfighter Support IT day in Vienna, Va...