Fierce Healthcare June 22, 2022
Heather Landi

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will push off deployment of a new electronic medical records system to additional medical facilities until 2023 to address outages that have plagued the software at current sites.

The VA acknowledged in a statement that there have been “unanticipated outages and system degradations” from the onset of the new Oracle Cerner electronic medical record system rollout. The EHR system has been rolled out to three VA facilities to date.

The VA had planned to deploy the new health records software, which was developed by Cerner, now owned by Oracle, at the Puget Sound VA Health Care System, including American Lake and Seattle VA Medical Centers, this August, but will now push...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, Healthcare System, Provider, Safety, Technology, VA / DoD
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