Pentagon’s $1.45 Billion Health IT Budget Request Includes Spectacles

The Defense Department requested a $1.45 billion operations and maintenance budget for fiscal 2014 -- that’s to keep the light on and the computers humming -- for the Military Health System’s information technology systems, down $15 million from fiscal 2013.

I like to get into the budget weeds and could not help but notice that $500,000 of this request covers two veterinary information systems and something called the Spectacle Request Transmission System, a fancy name for eyeglass ordering.

If you want to know more about SRTS, which “decreases processing time, reduces entry errors, helps organize clinic records and allows deployed patients to replace lost or damaged glasses quickly,” go here.