Obama pledges new data system for veterans

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Washington Post, April 10, 2009

President Obama announced that his administration will create an electronic record for veterans that will "contain their administrative and medical information from the day they first enlist to the day that they are laid to rest." Obama has made electronic record-keeping a key feature of his healthcare reform effort, but a problem is how the military and VA hospital systems will be able to communicate with each other.

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