Healthcare DIVE February 15, 2024
Emily Olsen

Some lawmakers questioned whether the new EHR deployment at Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, Ill., should go ahead as scheduled next month.

Lawmakers interrogated representatives from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Oracle about the troubled rollout of its new electronic health record system at a House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on Thursday, focusing on problems with pharmacy and scheduling software that could impact patient safety.

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome, a different result,” said Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont. “I have come to believe that this continuing effort to transform the Oracle Cerner pharmacy software into something completely different is insanity.”

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