MedPage Today July 16, 2021
Joyce Frieden

— Concerns raised about patient safety, cost overruns

WASHINGTON — The new electronic health record (EHR) system in the veterans healthcare system still leaves a lot to be desired, witnesses said at a Senate hearing.

The VA signed a $10 million contract for a new EHR system with Cerner Millennium in May 2018. This system was supposed to modernize the VA’s EHR and financial record-keeping, as well as establish a common EHR platform across VA and the Department of Defense. The contract was originally supposed to go live in March 2020, but the launch was delayed and the system finally went live in October.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough addressed this on Tuesday at a hearing on modernization of...

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Topics: Congress / White House, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Healthcare System, Provider, Safety, Technology, VA / DoD
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