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VA’s first permanent chief data officer Kshemendra Paul leaving agency

Kshemendra Paul, the VA’s first permanent chief data officer, is leaving the agency in November to join the Energy Department as an assistant inspector…

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

Veterans Affairs

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

Veterans Affairs

Veterans Affairs makes a single front door for contractors and would-be innovators

Veterans Affairs

FILE - In this May 14, 2013, photo, the Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning. Twelve people, including three U.S. Army soldiers, are accused in a large-scale gun trafficking ring that prosecutors allege supplied nearly 100 guns to gang members in Chicago. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the indictment on April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

DOJ indicts 3 for impersonating federal employees in $7.5M phone scam

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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

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VA scraps last EHR go-live date in FY 2022, amid IG accounts of patient harm

Veterans Affairs

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

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

Federal Newscast

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

Veterans Affairs

Office overseeing EHR interoperability between DoD, VA not having ‘active role’ in rollout

IT Modernization

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.

Veterans Affairs

VA looking into ‘root cause’ of EHR outage that also hit DoD, Coast Guard

Terry Adirim, executive director of the Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office, told reporters in a call Thursday that the cause was…

IT Modernization

VA brings employees back to the office, but envisions hybrid workplace for eligible staff

Veterans Affairs

The Veterans Affairs Department is the latest agency to bring its workforce back to the office, but is envisioning a hybrid workplace to improve recruitment and retention.