VA officials are pushing back against legislation requiring the VA to report codified improvement metrics for any new deployments of the Oracle Cerner EHR system.
The modified deal now includes much bigger monetary credits to VA if the company doesn’t meet key performance accountability metrics, and resets the partnership to five one-year terms.
VA Roseburg (Ore.) Health Care System is one of the few VA medical facilities to go live with the Cerner EHR system, but due to its ongoing troubles, it will reset the system to fix its issues, The News-Review reported May 12.
The Department of Veterans Affairs recently announced that future deployments of the new Electronic Health Record (EHR) will be halted while it prioritizes improvements at the five sites that currently use the new EHR, as part of a larger program reset. During this reset, VA will fix the issues with the EHR that were identified
SPOKANE, Wash. — Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers is calling for the end of a Department of Veteran Affairs health record system.