Article Excerpt: After two years without an increase, the Veterans Affairs Department requested a $3.37 billion information technology budget in 2013, up $216 million, or slightly less than 7 percent, from $3.11 billion in 2012. Just over $2 billion or 62 percent of that budget would be devoted to health care systems deployed to 152 department hospitals.

VA’s request includes $169 million to develop an integrated electronic health record system with Defense, a plan announced by the two departments in March 2011. This is a 75 percent jump from the $43 million included in the 2012 joint health record budget.

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