VA/DoD Deployment Interoperability Act

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HR 8571

Introduced

Oct 9, 2020

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Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be s ...

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Armed Forces and National Security Health information and medical records Intergovernmental relations Military medicine Military personnel and dependents Veterans' medical care

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VA/DoD Deployment Interoperability Act

This bill directs the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to update interoperable electronic health record systems to include certain information about deployments.

Specifically, the records must include the following information: (1) whether a member or veteran of the Armed Forces was deployed outside of the United States, (2) the number of such deployments, (3) the length of each such deployment, and (4) whether the member or veteran served in a theater of combat operations.

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Oct 9, 2020

Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Oct 9, 2020

Introduced in House

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