Becker's Healthcare February 11, 2022
Naomi Diaz

The Department of Veterans Affairs reported significant improvements after standardizing most of its high-priority datasets, FedScoop reported Feb. 10.

Laura Prietula, the VA’s acting deputy chief information officer, said the department had to improve its processes to transfer data uniformly to the Cerner Millennium and HealtheIntent platforms.

Some of the improvements include, data entry practices to ensure inputs aren’t skipped when the information isn’t immediately available and cleaning and curating data through its Vx130 platform, which migrates data from VA’s legacy system to Cerner’s platforms to identify problems and strengths physicians experience with the migrated data.

“There are some categories that we’re working more directly with our VHA functional community on,” Ms. Prietula said. “We are in this journey...

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