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The Department of Veterans Affairs is now making it easier than ever for you to securely share information between VA and non-VA health

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care providers! You no longer have to fax, hand carry, and mail documents to share your health records with other providers.

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VA is part of a national program to help make all of this so much easier  VA Direct! VA Direct improves the coordination of Veterans

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care. It makes it faster and easier for VA and non-VA health care staff to securely share messages containing Veterans health

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information. This takes place through the VA Direct web portal.
With this flexible tool, everything from referrals to women's health to

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mental health care coordination can be sent and received. It makes it some much easier to share information vital to a Veteran's health care.

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VA Direct is not just limited to doctors either. Clinicians, technicians, clerks, any VA staff member who needs to share medical documents

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that has a VA personal identity verification (PIV) card can do so via VA Direct. It provides secure and easy information exchange with 

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non-VA providers. VA Direct is a large national program, allowing for partnerships with


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both VA and non-VA providers that have met federal security standards. This program is designed to connect VA with many

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different providers all across the nation. VA Direct gives you the ability to securely communicate with many non-VA specialists, labs, and doctors.

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One of the more important aspects of VA Direct is to provide continuity of care for our Veterans. Keeping track of your Veterans'

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progress post referrals and tests has never been easier! Stay in touch with other providers as Veterans continue their health care in other

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locations. VA Direct helps foster interoperability of clinical data.
With VA Direct, nationwide communication of healthcare information

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is as simple as the click of a button! Provide a more thorough continuity of care while working with nationwide partners in this easy

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to use, streamlined system  VA Direct! For more information on VA Direct, visit
http://www.DNS   /VLER/va-direct.asp!


