Veterans Affairs Will host Electronic Health Records in DISA Data Centers

The Veterans Affairs Department will start to move data center operations that support its Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) electronic health records to data centers operated by the Defense Information Systems Agency in March. Officials expect to complete the transition in slightly more than a year, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told Nextgov...

Moving the VistA electronic health records to DISA data centers will help support development of a joint electronic health record for both departments, which will make it the largest in the world, serving 9.7 million active-duty personnel, retirees and their families, and 6 million veterans.

VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates agreed in March 2011 to develop the joint health record...