Healthcare IT News May 28, 2021
A report found that the projections put forth by the Veterans Health Administration were not reliable, and could be off by as much as $2.6 billion.
A Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General audit found that the Veterans Health Administration underestimated the cost of its electronic health records modernization project to the tune of billions of dollars.
The report, released earlier this week, noted that the preparation for the deployment of the Cerner EHR at VA facilities required significant physical infrastructure upgrades, such as electrical work, cabling, heating, ventilation and cooling.
Although VHA developed two cost estimates for those necessary upgrades, the OIG team found that these estimates were not reliable.
“To be reliable, the estimates...
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