"What are the protections to the taxpayer with these evolving goals and definitions?"
"We will be able to measure progress against those goals. Measure the effectiveness of the dollar spent."
"How do you see your job in terms of managing that balance that you talked about, between civil rights... and balance that against these security concerns?"
"Do you have any specific recommendations to correct those longstanding deficiencies?"
"the obligations that we owe to these veterans."
"Former Army Surgeon General Schoomaker and several other military leaders testified in 2009 that the DoD needs to replace their current clinical system, AHLTA, in order to improve quality of care, pat..."
"The plans announced by the Secretaries earlier this month would allow the DoD to rapidly replace their failing system with a commercial system."
"Couldn't the DoD use these methods to share patient information with the VA if they adopted a commercial system?"
"If DoD and VA used commercial systems, they would be able to exchange information with the commercial healthcare neighbors."
"Why should we ask our service member and families to wait for a newly-developed system when there are commercially available systems running our nation's top ranked hospitals and clinics?"
"Our goal is to continue to improve health outcomes and take advantage of advances in the commercial marketplace as quickly as possible."
"Can we justify spending ongoing tax payer dollars to support these expensive systems while an entirely different system is being developed?"