AIMS Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill builds on the DOD-VA Interagency Program Office for health data interoperability. The Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs must jointly adopt image-sharing software accessible through military health service facilities, MHS GENESIS, the VA Federal Electronic Health Record, VA facilities, and DOD medical facilities. The technology must interoperate among military medical centers, VA facilities and clinics, and non-VA community providers under section 1703 agreements. Within 180 days DOD and VA must brief and report to Armed Services and Veterans Affairs committees on the plan and timeline for full medical-image interoperability. The plan must address contracts with application vendors, baseline interoperability with external providers, licensed software with mobile access, EHR interfaces, synchronous clinical data exchange, smartphone alerts, image workflows, SMART on FHIR, OAuth2, DICOM, AI-supported return on investment, reduced CD and DVD transfers, a two-year data-storage platform, patient-centered care, staff burden, shared services, implementation milestones, projected cost, and annual updates with cost and time savings metrics.
Who Benefits and How
Veterans receiving VA care, service members receiving military care, VA medical facilities, military treatment facilities, community care providers, clinicians, and patients benefit from faster exchange of images and related clinical data without relying on CDs or delayed batch transfers.
Who Bears the Burden and How
VA, DOD, MHS GENESIS administrators, Federal EHR administrators, application vendors, community imaging providers, and congressional oversight committees must implement software, contracts, data storage, accessibility, security standards, milestone tracking, and annual reporting.
Key Provisions
- Requires DOD and VA to jointly adopt interoperable medical image-sharing software across military, VA, and community-care settings.
- Requires a 180-day briefing and report with a plan and timeline for full interoperability of medical images and related data.
- Requires software capabilities such as synchronous data exchange, mobile access, image workflows, SMART on FHIR, OAuth2, DICOM, and proactive alerts.
- Requires a two-year robust data storage platform and recurring congressional briefings on updates, cost savings, and time savings.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires DOD and VA to adopt interoperable medical image-sharing software across military, VA, and community-care settings, with a 180-day plan, two-year data-storage platform, standards requirements, and recurring congressional briefings on cost and time savings.
Key Policy Areas
Veterans, Healthcare, Defense, Technology
Primary Purpose
Requires DOD and VA to adopt interoperable medical image-sharing software across military, VA, and community-care settings, with a 180-day plan, two-year data-storage platform, standards requirements, and recurring congressional briefings on cost and time savings.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Veterans receiving VA care
- Service members receiving military care
- VA medical facilities
- Military treatment facilities
- Community care providers
- Clinicians
Identified Costs
- VA
- DOD
- MHS GENESIS administrators
- Federal EHR administrators
- Application vendors
- Congressional oversight committees
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition …
Introduced in House
Mr. Schweikert introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Community care providers, Military treatment facilities, Service members receiving military care
Military treatment facilities, VA medical facilities face effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: Service members receiving military care, Veterans receiving VA care
Negative-direction: Community care providers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "VA"
- → Department of Veterans Affairs
- "DOD"
- → Department of Defense
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