EHR Intelligence September 28, 2020
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) EHRM system will launch in Washington, while MHS GENESIS will go-live in Alaska.
Following delays to both the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program and MHS GENESIS, the Military Health System’s new EHR system, both are set to go-live in late October following the coronavirus.
Currently, in its third delay since November 2019, VA EHRM is scheduled to launch on October 24, at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA, according to The Spokesman-Review.
“Our goal and our buzz-phrase has been this lifetime, single longitudinal health record,” said John Windom, executive director of the VA Office of EHRM.
The staff will also implement a new appointment scheduling EHR tool...