DOTmed June 3, 2021
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs may be short by as much as $2.6 billion in funding for infrastructure upgrades needed to support its new EHR system.
The agency has put forth a $16 billion budget for the project, but a new government report says this may not be enough. The reasons, it says, is because the VA did not understand the actual needs of its facilities and will now have to spend the next year working with the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to improve planning and coordination. It also says the VA failed to report infrastructure costs to Congress, reports Reporter Health.
“For the previous three years our committee has repeatedly requested these (EHR) value estimates. However, the...
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