Circle Connections: Tech Updates A decision by the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments to scrap an ambitious effort to create a single shared electronic health-records system for service members and veterans is drawing sharp criticism on Capitol Hill. The departments have been working since 2008 on a project to create a seamless lifetime health record by 2017 to help ease the transition from military to civilian life for service members and veterans. But after numerous delays and more than $1 billion spent on the project, the two departments now say it will be faster and cheaper to merge the . . .

Circle Connections: Tech Updates A decision by the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments to scrap an ambitious effort to create a single shared electronic health-records system for service members and veterans is drawing sharp criticism on Capitol Hill. The departments have been working since 2008 on a project to create a seamless lifetime health record by 2017 to help ease the transition from military to civilian life for service members and veterans. But after numerous delays and more than $1 billion spent on the project, the two departments now say it will be faster and cheaper to merge the . . .