How does My HealtheVet relate to CPRS?

The My HealtheVet website is veteran-focused. The veteran "owns" a copy of his/her own personal health record. The VistA Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) is the authoritative VA medical record and remains that way.

A copy of this record is given to the veteran and stored in his/her secure eVAult. My HealtheVet merges data from multiple facilities and preserves the source of the data. Additional data from other sources can be added to the My HealtheVet data, including self entered data (such as over the counter medications).

The veteran, who is the only one who can give permission to others to review or update his/her data, controls this data. As an example, the veteran could give permission to a non-VA physician to add the results of some procedure into the My HealtheVet system.

The My HealtheVet website is veteran focused. The veteran "owns" a copy of his/her own personal health record. The Government Computer-Based Patient Record (GCPR) Framework Project is a federal health care initiative that will facilitate the secure electronic exchange of patient medical information among government health organizations, including VA, the Department of Defense, and the Indian Health Service.

GCPR is designed for the use of these agencies, not for the individual patient. My HealtheVet would like to leverage any standards-based solutions developed for GCPR, such as XML formatted data extracts, from any of the involved organizations.

The VA VistA system is the source of the electronic health records that are transferred to the eVAult associated with the veteran's My HealtheVet account. In the future, other systems will also be able to transfer data into the Health eVAult as well, in a standards based environment.

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