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A panel of judges to pick the winner would include:

One physician from each of the military departments
Two physicians from the Department of Veteran Affairs
Two representatives from the Veterans Benefits Administration

American companies of any size, U.S. citizens, and immigrants who have been granted permanent residence in the U.S. are all eligible to compete. Federal employees, however, can't play. In the meantime, there are few details about the requirements of the system the government would like to see invented. ","official_title":"To establish a prize program to award a prize and contract for the development of a fully-integrated electronic health records program for use by the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs.","short_title":"Integrated Electronic Health Records (iEHR) for Military and Veterans Act","popular_title":null,"short_summary":"Integrated Electronic Health Records (iEHR) for Military and Veterans Act - Directs the Secretaries of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) to jointly carry out a program to award a cash prize ($50 million) and contract to an entity that develops a fully-integrated electronic health records program for national use by DOD and VA. 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Why don't you simply use the same system that is currently being used by the Kaiser Permanente system? You don't have to give me 50 million for thinking up this solution. Use the cash to put the system into action, idiots.","show_argument_for":false,"show_argument_against":true,"upvote_count":0,"upvotes_for_count":null,"upvotes_against_count":0,"has_upvoted":false,"endorsement_count":0,"links":{"self":"https://www.causes.com/positions/f87d98da-27e4-4d7b-95c1-9b52b08e3092"},"body":"I thought there was already a system in place? Why don't you simply use the same system that is currently being used by the Kaiser Permanente system? You don't have to give me 50 million for thinking up this solution. 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