Mr. Walbourne and I met when I first took over the job. I had several ideas about how I wanted to act, but I had files transferred to VAC so I did work quite closely with him. We met just one on one and shared some of our ideas. What I'm seeing today is some of those ideas for expeditious file transfers come to fruition. Specifically, the grand vision we had was to get the electronic health record directly into the hands of Veterans Affairs. I'm happy to say that we have started that and it has proven to be successful, and we have been able to give Veterans Affairs direct access to the health record.
I will tell you that the surgeon general, Major-General Bilodeau, and the commander, Admiral Patterson, are both very close to their friends in Veterans Affairs. They're dedicated to closing the seam and working collegially with VAC to expedite this file transfer and get it going as quickly as we possibly can.