EHR Intelligence April 16, 2021
The VA entered its fourth EHR implementation pause since 2019, and it will not restart until the agency completes a strategic review.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has paused its upcoming Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) rollout until the agency completes its strategic review and reports the results to Congress, according to VA officials at a recent House Subcommittee on Technology Modernization hearing.
Columbus, Ohio, was poised to be the following EHRM implementation location, but the agency will put the implementation on hold until future notice.
The announcement came soon after new VA Secretary Denis McDonough’s initial one-month EHRM assessment and separate lists of concerns from Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The agency...
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