Fierce Healthcare August 23, 2019
A VA OIG audit blamed limited VHA monitoring and oversight and significant staffing shortages for creating a massive backlog in medical records that have yet to be entered into the EHR.
If every single one of the paper documents that still need to be digitized at Veterans Health Administration medical facilities were stacked, it would reach more than five miles up, a federal watchdog said.
In addition, VHA medical facilities currently have a backlog of nearly 600,000 electronic documents that still need to be entered into the electronic health record system of July 2018, with some documents dating back to October 2016, according to an audit conducted by the VA’s Office of Inspector General.
The OIG blamed limited VHA monitoring...
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