Victor Oliver 03/14/2001
The VA is the nation's largest integrated health system. We have 1300 sites of care, and this includes 171 medical centers and over 800 outpatient clinics.
The volume of information that we have is actually quite large. We have 1.2 billion orders online.
All those sites of care, where we serve over 5 million veterans, are interconnected and the information can be retrieved.
When people thought about VA n the early 1990s it was not a term that they associated with high quality care. In the last 10 years, VA’s undergone a transformation.
CPRS is the computerized patient record system. At any place in the hospital, the doctor can see the information that the previous doctor has entered.
When I get a patient here at the veteran's affairs hospital in the middle of the night, i have at my fingertips the patients' full medical records, their medications, and all their laboratory and imaging data.
Anything that could be imaged is captured. So it could be endoscopy or colonoscopy colonoscopy, it would be could be pathology slides.
For us and for the country, health care moves from the clinic to the community. We're actually using the personalized health record today to move that information out to the patient.
The personal health record has, in its ideal state, your entire health record in it. Where the person themselves gets to decide who gets to see it, what they get to see, and how long they get to see that information.
The end goal is not about the technology. The end goal is to use the technology to deliver ever-better health care. Health care that's safe, effective, and efficient, but also compassionate and humane
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - "More than three million World War II veterans
have died since Congress approved a national memorial to them in
1993, yet work has not begun," said House Veterans' Affairs
Committee Chairman Chris Smith (NJ-4) during today's debate on
H.R.
1696, legislation to expedite construction of the
already-approved World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington,
DC.
"We've had enough discussion, objections, and dilatory tactics.
It's time to break ground on this memorial," said Smith. The
House
later voted to approve H.R. 1696, which was sponsored by Armed
Services Committee Chairman Bob Stump (AZ-3) and cosponsored by
Veterans' Committee Chairman Smith and Ranking Democrat Member
Lane Evans (IL-17). The legislation now moves to the Senate for
their
approval.
"The design and site for the memorial have been carefully
studied, considered and approved over a period of more than six
years, a
longer time than it took to win World War II," said Chairman
Smith. "The Allied victory in this greatest war in world history
represented a triumph of the human spirit and began the march of
freedom and democracy across the world that continues even
today,"
he said.
"America must never forget the cost of victory, nor the men and
women who paid for this victory with their lives," Smith said.
"The
World War II Memorial is a tribute to their service, as well as a
permanent reminder for all of us, as well as future generations
to
come, about the eternal value of freedom and the price that was
paid to secure it," he said.
"H.R. 1696 will be the sixth bipartisan piece of legislation
Congress has sent to the White House for approval attempting to
move
the process along," said Congressman Bob Stump, prime sponsor of
the bill. "Over the past six years, 22 public hearings have been
held on the site and design of the memorial, which has received
the endorsement of the Historic Preservation Officer of the
District
of Columbia and four endorsements from the D.C. Historic
Preservation Review Board," he said.
"In addition, the Commission of Fine Arts and the National
Capital Planning Commission have each rendered approval for the
memorial
five times. The site was approved by both the Secretary of
Interior and the President. And still construction has not
begun," Stump
said.
"More than 50 years after the end of World War II there still
does not exist in our Nation's capital a fitting memorial to the
service and sacrifice of the millions of Americans who preserved
democracy and defeated totalitarianism during World War II. The
time to construct this memorial is now", Evans said. Noting that
the National World War II Memorial will be located between the
Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, Evans said some
critics of the memorial argue the memorial would "clutter up an
already crowded site. A prominent memorial to those whose service
and sacrifice this memorial will honor is not 'clutter'," he
declared.
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I have a list of folks I know
all written in a book,
And every now and then
I go and take a look.
That is when I realize
these names they are a part,
not of the book they're written in,
but taken from the heart.
For each Name stands for someone
who has crossed my path sometime,
and in that meeting they have become
the reason and the rhyme
.
Although it sounds fantastic
for me to make this claim
,
I really am composed
of each remembered name
.
Although you're not aware
of any special link,
just knowing you, has shaped my life
more than you could think
.
So please don't think my greeting
as just a mere routine,
your name was not
forgotten in between.
For when I send a greeting
that is addressed to you,
it is because you're on the list
of folks I'm indebted to
.
So whether I have known you
.
for many days or few,
in some ways you have a part
in shaping things I do
.
I am but a total
of many folks I've met,
you are a friend I would prefer
never to forget.
My Grace
Lynne My Kiwi Friend from New Zealand
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Applications from Wannabees and this one got through he wore a knife on his leg
What did he strap it with ?
How did he get to use it when he needed it ?
Was is a boys scout knife ?
EVEN "TARZAN" THE APE MAN PUT HIS AROUND HIS WAIST
I had a 7" Kabar on my belt and I didn't have to bend to get it. It was a throwing knife and it kept me alive
He had no partner he carried everything the fuses, the timers his own watch to set the fuses
even the powder he was as he said a "Naked Warrior" he had no team and he's not listed as a "Naked Warrior" in Fort Pierce, Fla. where they are all listed.
I'm giving him a little time to take us off his E-Mail Organization line as an officer of the Org.
I have his Pic current 1998 and I have his address and I also have the rest of his application which smells too.
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