Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, ma'am. Technically anything is possible. I'm not aware right now of where the minds of the transition group—who would be specifically responsible for that piece—rest on that specific item. I will tell you that the second that VAC asks us for a file, it is a simple click of

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't know how many files they're dealing with on a day-by-day basis. That's a question my friends at VAC would have to answer.

Veterans Affairs committee  It took us no more than a day or two to do the training.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm assuming you're speaking about Mr. Walbourne.

Veterans Affairs committee  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 ex

Veterans Affairs committee  I am not a clinician myself. I don't work in the clinics. I work at the headquarters, so I can't discuss what would be in the mindset of the clinician. What I can tell you is that they are absolutely dedicated individuals and are wanting to do nothing more than provide the best h

Veterans Affairs committee  Now that we are moving CFHIS directly into the hands of VAC adjudicators, there is no information, or no immediate information, that will be missing other than paper records that will need to be scanned into CFHIS. That being said, the amount of time it takes to scan a record is

Veterans Affairs committee  Let me clarify that there are two projects under way within the Canadian Armed Forces health services group. The first, the project that kicked off first, was the modernization of the Canadian Forces health information system. That is a project where we are looking at our curre

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm in charge of it working alongside VAC.

Veterans Affairs committee  I would hazard a guess. We most certainly expected, had it not been for COVID, that we would have been well under way already. We already have Veterans Affairs adjudicators directly accessing the Canadian Forces health information system, so the first steps are absolutely under w

Veterans Affairs committee  Actually, sir, it will never be completed because every time a new adjudicator comes in, we will have to train them and get them up to speed on CFHIS. It's not a project that I ever see finishing. What I do see is that we will continue to work with Veterans Affairs to ensure that

Veterans Affairs committee  That is a question that would be better suited to VAC.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. I am in no way in a position to discuss an attribution prior to or after release. What I can tell you is that the moment that a diagnosis is made by a clinician in the Canadian Armed Forces, it is entered into CFHIS. Therefore, as of the moment they click on the mouse, it's

Veterans Affairs committee  Personally, I can't speak to what the minister was talking about. What I can talk to you about are the efforts we've undertaken so far to close the gap. Recently—well, last year—we actually extended for the first time ever the Canadian Forces health information system directly

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't have an estimate. The onus right now is on Veterans Affairs to set the conditions at each of their locations, along with National Defence, to get the National Defence networks located in the locations where Veterans Affairs have their adjudicators. We are working jointly