GAO Calls on VA to Address EHRM Health Data Management Issues

EHR Intelligence February 2, 2022
Hannah Nelson

The GAO report outlines several health data management issues with VA’s EHRM project, including poor migrated data quality.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) needs to address health data management challenges for its EHR modernization (EHRM) project, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that raises patient safety concerns related to data quality.

VA’s planned data management activities for its EHR implementation included migrating legacy data to the new Cerner system. Consistent with its plans, VA migrated selected data to the new EHR platform in October 2020 prior to the initial system deployment.

While VA conducted testing to help ensure migrated data were accurate and matched expected results, VA’s analyses and GAO’s report indicate that clinicians experienced challenges...

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