Healthcare IT News July 12, 2021
The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General raised potential concerns this past week in a pair of reports evaluating the VA’s deployment of its Cerner electronic health record.
A pair of reports from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General raised more potential concerns about the VA’s electronic health modernization program.
The reports, published on back-to-back days this past week, flagged unreliable IT infrastructure cost estimates for the EHR modernization program as a whole, along with training deficiencies for business and clinical workflows at the first go-live site at the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington.
WHY IT MATTERS
In the first report, published this past Wednesday, the VA OIG’s Office of...