CPS wins Department of Veterans Affairs Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record Contract

October 2010

CPS, along with our prime contractor partner CACI Technologies, has been awarded the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Development Support Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Contract. In early 2009, the President asked the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver a virtual lifetime electronic record (VLER) that seamlessly integrates DoD data to VA data in order to ensure that no Veteran has a delay in service as a result of the transition from active duty to Veteran status. The Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Initiative Programs purpose is to support the VA mission and efforts to promote quality healthcare for our veterans and their eligible dependents. In particular, the VLER Initiative supports Veterans Health Administrations (VHA) long range strategy to work with other public and private sector agencies on a collaborative effort to improve the health of our citizens, including over 25 million veterans. The VLER Initiative strategy is primarily focused on: Electronic Health Records (EHR); Personal Health Records (PHR) and Health Information Exchange (HIE) activities applying appropriate health IT standards. The VLER Initiatives program involves health IT sharing activities in the following areas: VA/ DoD, Federal Government, and private sector (state, local and non-Government organizations.) In support of this most important initiative, CPS will leverage our history supporting patient data exchange between the DoD and the VA on programs such as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Imaging Information Exchange, the Bi-Directional Health Information Exchange (BHIE) and National Health Information Network (NHIN) programs.