Instead, much of the sharing involves what are essentially electronic versions of paper documents, rather than fully sortable and analyzable information databases. Without fully computable data, the DoD and VA are "missing 95 percent of the potential benefits of an integrated system," says
Phillip Longman, a senior fellow at the
New America Foundation and the author of
Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours...
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