Modern Healthcare October 5, 2019
Aurora Aguilar

Dr. David Shulkin has been busy since he was unceremoniously fired in 2017 from his post as secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department. He’s the chief innovation officer at Sanford Health, a distinguished health policy fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and sits on several boards. But as one of only 10 people to have led the nation’s largest integrated healthcare system, Shulkin’s boldest move was asking Congress for $728 million to do away with a cornerstone of the agency’s history.

WHAT WAS YOUR RISKIEST DECISION? Moving away from the VA’s electronic health records system to a commercial EHR system.

WHY WAS THAT MOVE RISKY? The VA was one of the early leaders in developing an EHR 30 years ago...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Market Research, Provider, Technology, Trends, VA / DoD
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