It's About The Veterans
Oracle News, February 10th, 2023
January saw the introduction of two new House bills related to the VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program, adding another decade to the on-again, off-again modernization attempts at the VA
One of the bills H.R. 608-the Termination Act-will kill the program quickly, and the other bill H.R. 592-the Improvements Act-will kill it slowly. Either bill would result in veterans being delayed or denied the benefits of a modern Electronic Health Record (EHR) and instead having to continue using VA's decades-old VistA health record system. We previously wrote about the importance to lead and the impracticality of returning to VistA in this prior blog entitled Veterans Deserve Better than VistA.
For sure, the roll out of the new Electronic Health Record at the VA has had its problems, and there is a lot of blame to go around. We have spent the last six months working through the issues on the Oracle / Cerner side as detailed in our year-end report.