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Improving electronic medical record access was an Obama thing as i recall.

In a recent report, the GAO said that efforts to build a joint patient records system with the Defense Department were "unsuccessful," so the VA shifted to going solo. While the "VA has developed a number of plans to support its development of its electronic health record system," the GAO auditors expressed doubt that the work would be done in 2018 as VA officials predicted.

On the other hand, Paul Shekelle, who is both a staff physician for the VA in Los Angeles and a researcher with RAND, a prominent policy analysis group, told us medical records are easily transferrable within the VA.

"There is no question this is better now than eight years ago, and way, way better than any other health system I know of," Shekelle said. "Routinely in clinic, I have patients show up in Same Day Care saying things like 'I need my medication refilled,' or whatever, and they just are in from Florida or Minnesota or wherever and don't know the names of their medications, and I am able to look up right then and there everything that was done for that veteran in Florida or Minnesota — medications, doctor's notes, lab test results, everything." .. from .. The Obameter
Make the Veterans Administration a national leader in health reform
[...]
VA: Progress on some fronts but not all
By Jon Greenberg on Monday, December 5th, 2016 at 4:08 p.m.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/112/make-the-veterans-administration-a-national-leader/

which has to be remembered on reading something like this comment in rejection of the opinion that Kushner's Office of American innovation had done f*all to date.

Kushner and his allies reject that assessment, saying the office is focused on long-term projects. They say, for example, that the group helped the Department of Veterans Affairs launch their electronic medical records initiative in June, with Kushner expediting the process by calling Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and asking him to send people from his department to help.
.. your link .. The shrinking profile of Jared Kushner
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-shrinking-profile-of-jared-kushner/2017/11/25/5baf7068-c103-11e7-af84-d3e2ee4b2af1_story.html?utm_term=.4c64aaae5eb4

Do much, if not all, of any Trump administration positive achievement in the social arena can be seen as carrying on reforms Obama had begun.