Healthcare IT News November 3, 2021
Ed Meagher, who served as Veterans Affairs deputy chief information officer in the early aughts, argues that the agency’s legacy EHR system needs to be “modernized, not replaced.”
In a pair of op-eds published in the Federal News Network, former Veterans Affairs Deputy Chief Information Officer Ed Meagher offered his take on the agency’s beleaguered attempts to update its electronic health record system.
In short, said Meagher, the VA’s legacy EHR, VistA “needs to be modernized, not replaced.”
As he explained, “VistA meets all of VA’s current needs. It does need to be ‘replatformed’ and key elements need to be modernized, but those efforts were underway, at several orders of magnitude lower cost and risk, when the Cerner...
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