Healthcare IT News March 27, 2024
Andrea Fox

Because a high-risk flag had been inactivated in the hospital’s new Oracle electronic health record, clinicians did not evaluate a veteran’s mental health and medication restart request, contributing to an overdose seven weeks after a missed appointment.

The Veterans Administration’s Office of Inspector General released a report recently, following an investigation into a scheduling error in the new Oracle electronic health record at VA Central Ohio Healthcare System in Columbus that the agency said contributed to a patient’s death.

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In the March 21 report, which offered five recommendations to the Veterans Health Administration’s Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office, the OIG said it evaluated the health system’s failures related to a coding error in new EHR functionality....

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