; (B) ensuring that Department medical personnel have access to integrated, computable, and comprehensive health records and health data of patients sufficient to enable the provision of seamless care within and outside the Department; (C) surpassing the capabilities achievable through bidirectional information exchange between electronic health record systems or the exchange of read-only data; and (D) planning for and effectuating the broadest possible implementation of interoperability and data standards, specifically with respect to the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard or successor standard, the evolution of such standards, and the obsolescence of such standards. (7) To increase the amount of medical collections in the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care Collections Fund established under section 1729A of title 38, United States Code. (8) To support and strengthen research and development activities, including such activities required under section 7303 of title 38, United States Code. (9) To protect the personal information, including personally identifiable information and protected health information, of veterans, patients, and other users of electronic health record systems and health information technology systems authorized under subsection (a) from cyber attacks, identity theft, and other cyber and security threats. (10) Such other purposes as the Secretary may determine appropriate. 512. Responsibility for electronic health record program and health information technology (a) In general If the Secretary of Veterans Affairs carries out a program under subsection (a) of section 511— (1) with respect to the modernization of the electronic health record system of the Department of Veterans Affairs pursuant to section 511(a)(1)— (A) the Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall— (i) be directly responsible to the Secretary for such electronic health record system modernization; (ii) oversee such electronic health record system modernization