Healthcare IT News March 7, 2025
Andrea Fox

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, along with other agencies using federal EHRs, experienced a system outage just weeks after assuring lawmakers about the success of ongoing improvement efforts.

Another national outage this week has prompted a new focus on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Electronic Health Records Modernization effort.

WHY IT MATTERS

The Spokane VA Medical Center said it experienced an outage of its Oracle Health EHR system on Tuesday from approximately 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, which prompted a technical investigation, NBC affiliate KHQ News reported the following day.

Then on Thursday, CNBC...

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