Colloquia Archive
My HealtheVet: Transforming VA Health Care
June 15, 2007
Host: Josette Jones
AbstractMy HealtheVet is a national Veterans Health Administration program and web-based application that enables veterans to create and maintain a Personal Health Record. My HealtheVet provides access to a comprehensive Personal Health Journal, trusted health information and evidence-based libraries, links to Federal and VA benefits and resources, and online prescription refills. Planned features include a secure copy of key parts of the VA’s award-winning Electronic Medical Record. An ambitious pilot of this feature has informed the development of the architecture and policy for the national rollout.
My HealtheVet Personal Health Record offers veterans an opportunity to more fully participate as partners with physicians in their health care. It is available to all veterans and their families as well as VA staff and health care providers. Nearly 400,000 registered users have access to the portal’s full range of features, and total visits since its November 2003 launch have exceeded 10 million. Veterans have ordered and received more than 2.7 million prescription refills since the August 2005 introduction of online refill ordering. Given veterans' enthusiasm, continued growth is anticipated.
This colloquium will highlight the My HealtheVet Personal Health Record, performance evaluation framework, and strategies to enhance use and clinical adoption.
Further details are available at www.myhealth.va.gov.
BiographyKim Nazi is a Management Analyst for the Department of Veterans Affairs, where she has worked for almost 24 years. She is a Board-Certified Healthcare Executive and a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Kim previously served as the Director of eHealth for the VA Healthcare Network Upstate New York, focusing on the use of technology to improve and expand the delivery of health care services.
