Learn about Your Medical Records Health Summary

Get Your VA Health Summary - Improved and Updated

The VA Health Summary, formerly named the VA Continuity of Care Document (VA CCD), was designed to allow Veterans to share their VA health information electronically. This information is shared with a non-VA health care system or provider. The VA Health Summary is a summary of essential health and medical care information from your VA health record. It gives non-VA providers access to your most important VA health information at the point of care.

Review Your Health Data

My HealtheVet's VA Health Summary contains a summary of your essential health care information from your VA medical record. You can use it to review your medical records or to share your records with other healthcare providers or caregivers.

The updated VA Health Summary still contains the same information found in the earlier version (medications, lab and test results, health conditions, etc.) but it has expanded to be even more useful.

What's New in the VA Health Summary?

The updated VA Health Summary now includes:

• VA notes (including clinical visit notes and consult notes)
• Radiology reports
• Pathology reports
• A list of surgical procedures and the associated surgical procedure notes
• Clinical procedure notes
• An improved medication section that includes both your VA medication history and any medications prescribed by your community doctors that are listed in your VA medical record.

What kind of information is in it?

• Allergies
• Encounters
• Procedures
• Immunizations
• Lab Results
• Problems/Conditions
• Vital Signs
• Medications

What are the Benefits?

Benefits:

1. Easy access to a summary of your essential medical information in one place.

Benefits:

2. Allows you to easily share essential health care information with non-VA community providers, family, caregivers, or in case of an emergency.

Sharing your health care information can prevent unnecessary duplicate tests and help to make sure that all of your providers know about all of your medications.

Benefits:

3. Your information is available in a file format that allows other applications (e.g. electronic health record systems or other personal health record applications) to read the information and add it to their system.

How Do I Get My VA Health Summary?

To get your Updated VA Health Summary, logon to My HealtheVet and go to
Personal Information/Download My Data.