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NDHI
NAT IONAL DIALOGUE FOR
Healthcare Innovation
JAL FHCC Order Portability
Project
Organization Overview
• Leidos provides lasting solutions for the world’s most
complex problems, including scientific, engineering,
systems integration, and technical services
• Leidos helps healthcare organizations meet regulatory
requirements, optimize technology for their
clinical workflows, improve collections and reduce
receivables, and keep data safe
Background
To enhance operational efficiency, promote cost savings,
and improve access to medical services, the Department
of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) established an integrated healthcare
center in North Chicago in 2010: the Captain James
A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (JAL FHCC).
The JAL FHCC is a consolidated federal health care
facility which consists of:
• North Chicago VA Medical Center, serving veterans
in Northern Illinois
• Great Lake Naval Station Health Clinics, supporting
naval recruits and trainees
In order to successfully integrate these healthcare
systems, it was critical to develop ‘near real-time’
interoperability between the DoD’s electronic health
record (EHR) system, Composite Health Care System
(CHCS), and the VA’s EHR system, Veterans Integrated
Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA).
Project Details
• The objective was to plan and oversee acquisition
and implementation of information systems that
integrated health care processes at the health
system to achieve the following:
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Build a single patient registration process
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Create a medical single sign-on capability with
patient context management
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Build orders portability services for pharmacy,
radiology, consult, and laboratory process
• The project was initiated using a traditional waterfall
software development lifecycle with phase-gate
acceptance, in accordance with the VA Program
Management Accountability System (PMAS) and
then transitioned to an Agile System Development
Life Cycle
• The solution utilized HL-7 encapsulated in XML over
SOAP between the two EHR systems and identity
management (MVI/DEERS)
Value Delivered
This comprehensive solution enables near real-time
interoperability between the different EHR systems,
with the following features:
• Unambiguous patient identification
• Efficient extraction of information between CHCS
and VistA
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