Fedscoop February 10, 2022
Dave Nyczepir

The Department of Veterans Affairs has standardized the vast majority of the high-priority datasets it’s transferring to two platforms that form the backbone if its Electronic Health Record Modernization effort, according to a senior official.

Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer Laura Prietula said Thursday that transferring the data in a uniform fashion to the Cerner Millennium and HealtheIntent platforms has required the EHRM Integration Office to make “significant improvements” to its processes.

Prietula has only been in her role since December, during which time the Government Accountability Office released findings that VA failed to ensure the data being migrated met clinicians accessibility, accuracy and appropriateness needs since August 2019 and recommended the department develop performance measures and a stakeholder register.

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