Becker's Healthcare September 8, 2020
Jackie Drees

The Department of Veterans Affairs is rebooting its $16 billion Cerner EHR go-live and will follow a revised implementation schedule this fall, according to a Sept. 3 FCW report.

In February, VA postponed the system rollout at its Spokane, Wash.-based Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center to July but then further delayed the go-live in April to focus on its COVID-19 pandemic response.

Despite the delays, VA’s office of EHR modernization director John Windom told the publication that the project was never paused or stopped: “What we did instead was found other avenues to continue to make progress,” he said.

Seven things to know about VA’s revised rollout:

1. In the past few months, the VA has been developing its “1.1 capability...

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