Military.com March 18, 2022
The Department of Veterans Affairs‘ new electronic health records system failed to flag patients who had been identified as suicide risks, gave doctors inaccurate information about patients’ medications, and caused delays in scheduling appointments, the department’s watchdog said Thursday.
Those are just some of the patient safety issues identified in a scathing series of three reports released by the VA’s inspector general about the electronic health records program’s rollout at its test site at a VA hospital in Spokane, Washington.
While investigators could not identify any serious health problems or deaths resulting from the issues with the electronic records, the reports add to a pile of concerns lawmakers have about a $16 billion program that is supposed to receive...
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