Fierce Healthcare February 20, 2024
A year after hitting the pause button on a multibillion-dollar health tech project at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), federal lawmakers continue to have serious concerns about pharmacy software issues that could impact patient safety.
During a House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee hearing last week, lawmakers grilled leaders from the VA and tech company Oracle about the big-ticket electronic health record (EHR) overhaul and patient safety issues flagged by federal watchdogs.
A draft VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) report found that an error in Oracle Health’s software coding resulted in the widespread transmission of incorrect VA Unique Identifier numbers from hospitals and clinics using the new Oracle Cerner medical records system to hospitals using the “legacy” EHR,...
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