Healthcare DIVE December 2, 2021
Rebecca Pifer

Dive Brief:

  • The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to restart its checkered systemwide implementation of a new electronic health record early next year, but has given its leadership team an overhaul following congressional ire, snowballing spending and concerns about patient safety, officials announced Wednesday.
  • The changes came as the VA released the findings of a four-month investigation into the $16 billion project. Officials have made plans for more comprehensive worker training and scheduled deployment of the Cerner system throughout VA facilities until 2024.
  • The project, meant to bring all VA, Department of Defense and Coast Guard facilities onto the same EHR system, has faced scrutiny from Congress and was paused in July following implementation issues at the Mann-Grandstaff VA...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, Provider, Technology, VA / DoD
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