Military.com May 27, 2022
The Department of Veterans Affairs will be required to regularly report the performance — including incidents that risk patient safety — of its troubled electronic health records systems to Congress under new legislation headed to the president’s desk.
The Senate approved a bill Thursday to require the VA to submit quarterly reports to lawmakers on the performance and costs of the Electronic Health Record Modernization program, or EHRM. The bill already passed the House in a voice vote in November, meaning it now heads to President Joe Biden for his signature.
A VA hospital in Spokane, Washington, was forced to suspend patient admissions and appointments after the records system, estimated by the agency to cost $16.1 billion, crashed in March....
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