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Run Date: JUN 17, 2025                     Designation: WEBS*2*5
Package : WEBS - VISTA AUDIT SOLUTION         Priority: Mandatory
Version : 2         SEQ #5                      Status: Released
                  Compliance Date: JUL 18, 2025
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Subject: VAS 2.4

Category: 
  - Informational

Description:
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 Informational patch WEBS*2*5 announces the release of the Veterans 
 Information System and Technology Architecture (VistA) Audit Solution
 (VAS) web application version 2.4. The VAS application is a real-time
 web-based interface that has dependencies on VistA patient data. It
 provides a nationwide Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
 (HIPAA) compliant Audit Tracking Solution with the ability to track and
 report on access logs for patients' Personal Identifiable Information
 (PII)/Protected Health Information (PHI) data across all VistA instances.
 VAS users are Privacy Officers and Information Systems Security Officers
 (ISSO) and their authorized representatives who need the ability to view
 the log of Create, Read, Update and/or Delete (CRUD) operations on patient
 information to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), HIPAA,
 employee and Inspector General (IG) requests. This data originates from
 VistA and flows through in-memory database servers to be stored in the
 Veterans Affairs Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) Amazon Web Services (AWS). VAS
 web-based User Interface will access and display the data stored in AWS.
  
 The VAS 2.4 release contains the following changes to the VistA Audit
 Solution:
  
 Enhancements 
  * The ability to filter Patient records by date range in the User
    Interface (UI).
  * Filter names have been matched to column names.
  * User search has been moved to filter page.
  * Deprecated information of merged patient will now display.
  
 Remediations 
  * Patient Searches that fail to complete and have timed out will 
    allow the user to search again. 
  * Additional 508 extensions (12 of 12 original deficiencies).
  
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 Test Sites:
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 -James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital - Tampa, FL
 -McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital - Little Rock, AR
 -VA Finger Lakes Healthcare System - Bath, NY
  
 Test Sites - Change Orders: 
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 Harlingen,TX
    Preprod: RLSE0018929 
    Production: RLSE0018930
 Tampa, FL 
    Preprod: RLSE0018929 
    Production: RLSE0018930
 Little Rock, AR
    Preprod: RLSE0018929 
    Production: RLSE0018930
  
  
 Software and Documentation Retrieval Instructions:
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 VAS is a centrally managed web-based application and will be 
 deployed to production servers by the VAS Technical team.
 No software will be installed at the facilities.
  
 Documentation describing the new functionality is included in this 
 release. Documentation can be found on the VA Software Documentation 
 Library at: https://www.domain.ext/vdl/. Documentation can also be 
 obtained at https://download.vista.domain.ext/index.html/SOFTWARE. 
  
 Documentation Title                     File Name                     
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 VAS User Guide                          VAS_2_4_UG.DOCX
                                         VAS_2_4_UG.PDF
  
 VAS Release Notes                       VAS_2_4_RN.DOCX
                                         VAS_2_4_RN.PDF
  
 VAS Deployment, Installation,           VAS_2_4_DIBRG.DOCX
 Back-out and Rollback Guide             VAS_2_4_DIBRG.PDF
  
  
 Patch Installation:
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 The VAS application is a centrally managed web-based application.
 No software will be installed at the facilities.
  
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 This is a centralized server promotion. No installation is required at 
 local sites.
  
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 Back-Out Plan:
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 Within context of this document, the term back-out pertains to a return 
 to the last known good operational state of the software and appropriate 
 platform settings. This does not apply for VAS 2.4 as the application
 resides in the Cloud.

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User Information:
Entered By  :                               Date Entered  : MAR 21, 2025
Completed By:                               Date Completed: JUN 16, 2025
Released By :                               Date Released : JUN 17, 2025
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