VA (Veterans Administration) Health Care: Plans to Ensure Compatibility of Two Medical Management Systems

摘要

In fiscal year 1985, the Veterans Administration (VA) implemented a new resource allocation methodology (RAM) to allocate a portion of its $10 billion medical care appropriation among its 160 medical centers. Since fiscal year 1983, VA has been developing a new medical information system called the decentralized medical management system (DMMS), which it expects to be operational in 1990. The report attempts to determine if the developers of DMMS are adequately coordinating their efforts with RAM officials to ensure that the system produces data that can be used by RAM and to determine the extent to which VA has or plans to have management oversight to ensure that DMMS is compatible with RAM.