Military Times March 17, 2022
Serious safety issues regarding patient medications and mental health flags remain unresolved with the Department of Veterans Affairs new electronic health records system, according to a series of reports released by a federal watchdog on Thursday.
But VA officials said they are working through those issues as the department prepares to deploy the records system to new sites later this spring.
The controversy is just the latest complication for the $16-billion plan to shift VA health records onto the Cerner Millennium software platform, the same one used by Department of Defense medical offices.
When then-President Donald Trump announced the plan in 2017, the goal...
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