"The plans announced by the Secretaries earlier this month would allow the DoD to rapidly replace their failing system with a commercial system."
"I think, at this point, we are looking at the integrated program office, the IPO, as the primary oversight body that is in place, to do that."
"You helped to put a human face on an issue that for many people can be reduced to processes or numbers or abstractions."
"Our goal is to continue to improve health outcomes and take advantage of advances in the commercial marketplace as quickly as possible."
"Couldn't the DoD use these methods to share patient information with the VA if they adopted a commercial system?"
"Can we justify spending ongoing tax payer dollars to support these expensive systems while an entirely different system is being developed?"
"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?"
"If DoD and VA used commercial systems, they would be able to exchange information with the commercial healthcare neighbors."
"the obligations that we owe to these veterans."
"Do you have any specific recommendations to correct those longstanding deficiencies?"
"Thank you. Ms. Melvin, you talked about longstanding institutional deficiencies and I think in your last statement you helped to define what those are."