Becker's Healthcare November 20, 2024
House lawmakers passed a bill to improve various services for veterans. However, the legislation left out provisions that would have required the Department of Veterans Affairs to strengthen oversight of its Oracle Health EHR modernization project, NextGov reported Nov. 19.
The bill, called the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act, was passed on Nov. 18. It included a section with proposals aimed at improving the troubled rollout of the VA’s new Oracle Health EHR system, but was later removed from the legislative package.
The removed proposals, according to the report, would have required the VA secretary to show that facilities using the Oracle Health EHR system had returned to or exceeded their previous operational...
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