Nextgov April 6, 2023
The Department of Veterans Affairs, which announced last October it was pausing rollouts of its new EHR system until June 2023, said it “is not yet ready” to move forward with the software’s scheduled deployment at the VA Saginaw Healthcare System.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced on Thursday that it is extending the pause on future deployments of its new multi-billion dollar Oracle Cerner electronic health record system, which were set to restart in June after an eight-month delay that was meant to help resolve issues with the software’s performance.
VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization program, which is designed to replace the department’s legacy system—the Veterans Health Information Systems...