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Top Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are planning to introduce legislation that would pause the VA’s troubled rollout of a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) until sites already using the system show improvement.
The White House is promoting its unity agenda as a playbook for what the administration can accomplish with a Republican-controlled House.
The VA Employee Fairness Act would provide full collective bargaining rights for 100,000 VA doctors, physician assistants, nurses, dentists and chiropractors.
Rising costs estimated for the Veterans Affairs Department to fully migrate to its new Electronic Health Record (EHR) system are making the project a tough sell to Congress, as lawmakers consider alternatives.
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday advanced a revised version of the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (Honoring Our PACT) Act that the Senate passed month, but addresses technical drafting errors.
The Department of Veterans Affairs, faced with thousands of job vacancies and a high rate of turnover among its health care workforce, is calling on Congress to set higher pay caps for more occupations, and permanently ease onboarding requirements.
The Veterans Affairs Department is looking to right-size its sprawling network of medical facilities across the country, and is planning to close or overhaul facilities that no longer meet the health care needs of veterans.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will deploy its electronic health record to a second site in March, with another 10 go-lives tentatively planned for later in 2022, after it spent more than a year grappling with usability, productivity and other challenges from the initial launch.
About 83% of employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs' initial go-live site in Spokane, Washington, say their morale has worsened due to the electronic health record implementation over the last year. VA is eyeing February as its target for deploying the EHR to its second site.
The Department of Veterans Affairs also envisions additional funding for its electronic health record modernization program, accountability office and diversity and inclusion initiatives, according to its 2022 budget request.
The Department of Veterans Affairs underestimated the costs of the physical infrastructure upgrades needed to prepare VA medical facilities for its new electronic health record. VA's IG said those upgrades may cost between $3.1 and 3.7 billion.
Employees and congressional stakeholders say the VA faces tough decisions with its ongoing strategic review, as the initial rollout of a new electronic health record in Washington state was far less successful than the agency originally touted last fall.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said the department will launch a strategic review of the electronic health records modernization program, following an analysis of the agency's initial deployment at its first site last fall.
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