Veterans Affairs committee  We do have a close collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services' Indian health service. So there is a designated portion of the federal government that is outside the Department of Veterans Affairs that works very closely with both the citizens and the governance of the tribes to be able to provide service to the Native Americans.

Veterans Affairs committee  Certainly. Within the United States, we as well are increasing the technical capability to have that type of access throughout the rural areas. Other departments are working on that as well. The Department of Agriculture and a couple of others have just put out some major grants to be able to extend broadband to areas that don't currently have it.

Veterans Affairs committee  In terms of interoperability and who else we partner with for that, we currently have some national work taking place that's looking at creating the health information technology standardization through which we can then partner and move this information wherever the veteran seeks care, whether that's within the VA or outside.

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, good afternoon. My name is Linda Fischetti. I'm going to be talking about two programs and one workforce issue. “My HealtheVet” is a personal health record that we offer to our veterans. We also have an interoperability program with the Department of Defense, which I'll mention.