Veterans looking to schedule an appointment and sort through available times via their mobile device will be able to do so in the future.
According to Stripes.com:
On Friday, the Department of Veterans Affairs will ask companies to make proposals for a new mobile application for scheduling care at its nationwide network of hospitals and clinics, officials said during testimony Tuesday in the House.
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Eventually, the app could allow veterans to request an appointment and see available slots. It is part of the agency’s effort to overhaul a decades-old electronic scheduling system implicated in a patient wait-time scandal and rife with security flaws that put millions of patients’ personal information at risk to hackers.
“We are expecting to get capability online in [fiscal year] ’15,” Stephen Warren, chief information officer at the VA Office of Information and Technology, told Stripes.com.
A decision on the contract is supposed to be reached in March.
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