VHIE PROGRAM OFFICE SUPPORT

JPSys contributed to mission critical initiatives underpinning the modern VHIE ecosystem which extends to community partners and Oracle Health. We continue to provide support for the VHIE office and its extensive network of community care partners. We employ a standards based data exchange model. This helps external providers securely send and receive Veteran health records with the VA. This work improves care coordination and supports the VA’s mission to deliver high quality, integrated healthcare to Veterans.

Standards Based Data Exchange for Vaccinations

JPSys designed FHIR v4 vaccination reporting pilot projects between the VA and the 54 US state Immunization Information Systems (IISs). Also, we guided the VA OI&T in the implementation of these FHIR pilots. This messaging software is the essential core for implementing electronic exchange between the VA and the various state IISs. Subsequently, over a period of a year and a half, we successfully engaged with the staff of over 48 IIS Systems to onboard them into receiving the automated electronic VA data streams. 

Direct Secure Messaging (DSM)

JPSys has been the leader of a 10 year effort to launch and guide the DSM work at VHA. The VHIE Program Office  manages programs supporting interoperability between VA, Department of War (DoW), SSA. Also key to the data exchange work is the inclusion of the community health care providers, including 2,200 major hospital systems. These commercial hospital systems and clinics included organizations such as the Mayo Clinic and John Hopkins. In order to achieve interoperability amongst these agencies and organizations, VHIE sought to improve and promote health information sharing through using VA Direct Messaging, HIE initiatives, and data standardization. Since 2016, Team JPSys has supported this goal, providing Business Support Services to the VHIE initiative. 

The JPSys DSM team was responsible for with developing, testing, and launching the new VA Direct Information Management System (VADIMS). The system houses VA Direct information that pertained to outreach, implementation, and sustainment. Additionally, the team participated in developing two Direct “Good News Stories” which were published in the CIDMO Spotlight newsletter. Also they submitted a VA end user to the DirectTrust Interoperability Hero program.

Architecture for VHIE Program Office Transitions

Team JPSys led the transition of VHIE from its legacy adapter to the Veterans Data Integration and Federal Enterprise Platform (VDIF-EP). We architected the migration to the DoW/VA Joint Health Information Exchange (JHIE) platform. We played a pivotal role supporting the developers by leading the strategic and technical efforts required to transition the Veterans Health Information Exchange (VHIE).

Another transition we guided included the migration to the Veterans Data Integration and Federal Enterprise Platform (VDIF-EP). This integrated with the DOW/Veterans Affairs Joint Health Information Exchange (DoW/VA JHIE). This move marked a major improvement in how the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) shares health information. It enhanced care quality, data access, and timeliness by enabling seamless, secure exchanges with both federal and private-sector partners. 

This included support for the Joint Health Information Exchange network where we contributed to architecture design and data integration strategies that improve reliability and compliance with evolving health IT standards. Our team also provided specialized support in healthcare IT data architecture. This support helped systems work together and improved data consistency across care providers.