Becker's Healthcare March 29, 2024
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Oracle Health implementation at one of its Chicago-area facilities is exceeding early expectations, Nextgov reported March 27.
The March 9 Oracle Health EHR implementation at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, Ill., is one of the most successful deployments of the new EHR system, Shereef Elnahal, MD, VA’s undersecretary for health, said at a department meeting March 26.
“We’ll be very transparent when problems arise and we’ll jump on any issue to fix it,” Dr. Elnahal said. “But so far, I think, in part because of the incredible teamwork between VA and DOD, but also the learnings — we’ve had significant...