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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaspl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AF- FAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO- PRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2016 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:31 a.m., in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Mark Kirk (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Kirk, Hoeven, Boozman, Capito, Cassidy, Test- er, and Udall. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS STATEMENT OF HON. LAVERNE H. COUNCIL, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY AND CHIEF INFORMA- TION OFFICER ACCOMPANIED BY: DAVID W. WALTMAN, CHIEF INFORMATION STRATEGY OFFICER, VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION DR. JONATHAN R. NEBEKER, DEPUTY CHIEF MEDICAL INFORMA- TION OFFICER, VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR MARK KIRK Senator KIRK. This hearing is to review the Department's health record and progress towards full interoperability with the Depart- ment of Defense (DOD). Last year for the first time, the GAO put veterans' healthcare on its high risk list for programs that are likely to experience fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. The Government Account- ability Office (GAO) cited information technology challenges, one of the five reasons why veterans' healthcare was on this list. I want to share with you my vision for going forward here, that we are aiming for. Whenever a soldier, sailor, airman leaves Active Duty and becomes a veteran, we should have a 100-percent seam- less transmission of their health records to the VA. Here is a data point. We have about 250,000 servicemembers leave the DOD and become veterans every year. That works out to about 700 per day, a data flow which is well within the possibility of everybody to cover. We want to make sure there is a seamless continuity of care. I have a friend now who is navigating the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability system, she was deployed in Iraq, and had (1)

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