Healthcare DIVE January 24, 2025
Emily Olsen

Doug Collins, a former Republican congressman from Georgia, told lawmakers he would look at the embattled rollout with fresh eyes and could restart deployments sooner than planned.

Dive Brief:

  • President Donald Trump’s pick to head up the Department of Veterans Affairs told lawmakers this week he’ll prioritize the agency’s embattled rollout of a new electronic health record if confirmed to the role.
  • Nominee Doug Collins said during a Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing on Tuesday that he planned to look at EHR deployments with fresh eyes if he takes up the post — and potentially restart the rollout sooner than the Biden administration had planned. “There’s no reason in the world we cannot get this done,” he...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, Provider, Technology, VA / DoD
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