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VA EHR seeing better results amid plans to resume rollout in FY 2025

VA’s Oracle-Cerner EHR has seen a 50% decrease in crashes and lags since the VA completed its last round of updates in August.

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Sweeping VA bill seeks more pay flexibility for health care workers, stricter EHR requirements

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VA watchdog warns EHR issue puts 250,000 veterans at risk of medication mix-ups

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VA EHR leader calls for 'accelerated delivery' in fixes to pharmacy disruptions

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VA's new EHR hits another outage, as agency reconsiders FY 2024 request for project

IT Modernization

VA pauses all future deployments of its new EHR in latest ‘reset’ of troubled rollout

Veterans Affairs

VA’s new EHR ‘not ready’ for next go-live, extending pause in rollouts

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Veterans Affairs

Senate Democrats join calls for pause on new VA EHR rollouts until metrics improve

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Veterans Affairs

VA sprint team outlines 4 key issues leading to EHR rollout problems

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Veterans Affairs

VA extends EHR delay to June 2023 after review finds more system problems

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Veterans Affairs

VA EHR ‘not even close’ to meeting patient needs right now, deputy secretary tells senators

In this May 29, 2017 photo, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost speaks to veterans at VFW Post 4183 in Belleville, Ill. Democrat Brendan Kelly is trying to retake a Southern Illinois House seat that Democrats held for more than 30 years before Bost won it in 2014. (Steve Nagy/Belleville News-Democrat, via AP)
Veterans Affairs

House lawmakers pan VA EHR as 'bad investment' with upcoming $39B cost estimate

Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, testifies before the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)
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Veterans Affairs

VA confidence in new EHR 'shaken' following cases of patient harm, McDonough says

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021 file photo, Medical staff move a COVID-19 patient who died to a loading dock to hand off to a funeral home van, at the Willis-Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, La. Louisiana hospitals already packed with patients from the latest coronavirus surge are now bracing for a powerful Category 4 hurricane, which is expected to crash ashore Sunday, Aug. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
Federal Newscast

A tale of two agencies trying to implement a new electronic health record

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Veterans Affairs

Costly, complex, weaknesses: Not great words for VA's electronic health record project

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Veterans Affairs

VA secretary urges EHR rollout to continue, but 'very concerned' about system outages

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2020, file photo, a video surveillance camera is installed on the ceiling above a subway platform in the Court Street station in the Brooklyn borough of New York. State lawmakers across the U.S. are reconsidering the tradeoffs of facial recognition technology amid civil rights and racial bias concerns. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Federal Newscast

Biden administration trying to find happy medium when it comes to facial recognition

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Veterans Affairs

House lawmakers seek VA EHR pause, 'gravely concerned' for patient safety

Healthcare workers transport a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit at the Hospital das Clinicas in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Friday, March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Jefferson Bernardes)
Federal Newscast

IG: VA may have to use data better to ensure resources go where they're needed

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Technology

Oracle buys medical records company behind VA's EHR modernization for $28B

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Veterans Affairs

VA resuming EHR deployments in March, restructuring management of massive project

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Commentary

Why VA's $16B (and counting) Electronic Health Record Modernization is doomed

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Veterans Affairs

VA will pause EHR deployments through at least 2021, department says

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