Healthcare DIVE July 22, 2021
Dive Brief:
- The Department of Veterans Affairs isn’t scheduling any more deployments of its new Cerner EHR for six months, an agency official told a House subcommittee on Wednesday. The pause follows recent watchdog reports highlighting snowballing spending and shoddy staff training at the record’s first go-live at a VA medical center in Spokane, Washington.
- VA Assistant Undersecretary Carolyn Clancy told legislators the Mann-Grandstaff facility was not ready to go live when it did, though there’s no clear evidence the EHR implementation resulted in direct harm to patients. To try to fix the beleaguered rollout of its Electronic Health Record Modernization program, the VA plans to shift from its previous site-by-site deployment to an enterprisewide readiness approach; create a...
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