Federal News Network June 1, 2022
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ first medical center to launch its new Electronic Health Record (EHR) is running into data quality challenges so severe that its inspector general’s office is concerned whether the facility can maintain its hospital accreditation.
The IG’s office, in a report Wednesday, found the Mann-Grandstaff Medical Center in Spokane, Washington still lacked critical quality and patient safety metrics a year after the EHR go-live.
The new EHR went live at Mann-Grandstaff VAMC in October 2020. The facility served over 35,000 patients in fiscal 2021.
The IG’s office found that the facility staff’s lack of access to critical metrics hurt the facility’s continuous readiness for re-accreditation, “which may compromise the facility’s future hospital accreditation status.”
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