Healthcare IT News July 12, 2021
Kat Jercich

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...

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