On March 9, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs launched the Federal Electronic Health Record (EHR) at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, Illinois. This is the first joint deployment of the federal EHR, which DoD calls MHS GENESIS, at a joint VA and Department of Defense facility. The Federal EHR also improves the ability for VA and DoD to coordinate care and share data with each other.