Cerner

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

The VA would receive additional pay flexibilities for its health care workforce, if a sweeping legislative makes it through Congress.

Veterans Affairs

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

IT Modernization

AP/Charles Dharapak

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

IT Modernization

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

IT Modernization

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

Veterans Affairs

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

Veterans Affairs

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

Veterans Affairs

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

Veterans Affairs

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

Veterans Affairs

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)

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

Veterans Affairs

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

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Congress and the vendors behind the VA’s new Electronic Health Record are renewing their scrutiny of the EHR rollout.

Veterans Affairs

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)

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

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Veterans Affairs Department is delaying the launch of its EHR in certain areas, while the Defense Department’s is moving…

Federal Newscast

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

Veterans Affairs

The new EHR has proven to be a heavy lift, especially when it comes to a realistic and enforceable schedule.