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AP/Charles DharapakFILE - This June 21, 2013, file photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. In a federal lawsuit filed this week, U.S. Navy veteran from South Carolina says he ended up with “full-blown AIDS,” because government health care workers never informed him of his positive test result in 1995. He says the test was done as part of standard lab tests at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Columbia, South Carolina. A V.A. spokeswoman says the agency typically does not comment on pending litigation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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

The VA and Oracle-Cerner are addressing issues that have led to less productive pharmacy operations at VA facilities using a new Electronic Health Record.

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

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

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(AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)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)

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

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

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

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

The VA’s new Electronic Health Record is now running at a third location, although lawmakers remain concerned about future rollouts.

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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)

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

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In today’s Federal Newscast, Can the government safely and equitably use facial recognition for identity proofing? That’s the question the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Service is asking.

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