How a Health Data Fabric Enables an Interoperable VA Ecosystem
Accelerating Veterans’ Access Claim Benefits and Just-in-Time Healthcare Anywhere and at Any Time
The VA’s Interoperability Pledge is drastically changing the landscape for the Veterans’ PACT Act and other service-related claims. While this is wonderful news for Veterans and their families, this initiative presents added challenges to a claims review system that is currently:
- Teetering on the edge of breakdown from complex and mostly manual processes
- Undergoing the largest ever increase in new claims filed
- Creating a new interoperability ecosystem for Veteran care across the US healthcare ecosystem
Accelerating Veterans’ access to healthcare and benefit claims anywhere and at any time is not a problem limited by technology. The technology already exists in the form of open-standard, interoperable, cloud-agnostic, event driven technology architectures. This is a systems-level problem where patient data—healthcare’s lifeblood in the digital age—is siloed within the boundaries of vendors’ solutions due to their use of proprietary data models.
Key Learnings
- The full extent of challenges and system inefficiencies present in fulfilling the PACT Act and VA’s Interoperability Pledge within the current system.
- How to take an open-standards first approach that propels high reliability, interoperable networks and future proofs the VA’s investment.
- The benefits of Smile’s enterprise-level, FHIR-first, event-driven Health Data Fabric architecture and how it supports high-priority use cases—like toxic exposures for Veterans.
- Next steps to initiate data transformation in your organization.