FCW January 30, 2023
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GOP Reps. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) and Mike Bost (R-Ill.) are backing legislation to end the troubled program to replace the Department of Veterans Affairs’ homegrown electronic health record system with commercial software from Oracle-Cerner.

Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.), who was the top Republican on a subcommittee conducting oversight of technology at the Department of Veterans Affairs, introduced a bill Friday that would aim to scrap the VA’s $20 billion-plus program to modernize the electronic health records system used by 9 million veterans.

The bill is titled: “To terminate the Electronic Health Record Modernization Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.” Full text has not been published online but the aim of the bill has echoes in comments from Rep....

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Topics: Congress / White House, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Provider, Technology, VA / DoD
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