“Representatives on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs grilled senior officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs about a lack of leadership that could derail the agency’s ability to execute on a massive medical records modernization project with several positions still unfilled…”
“There also appears to be some confusion about who is leading the VA’s Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization. On Tuesday, Politico reported that Genevieve Morris, the principal deputy national coordinator at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, would lead the program moving forward.”
“When pressed, O’Rourke called the report “premature reporting” but stopped short of calling it inaccurate…”
“Agency officials also a detailed an implementation timeline for three initial VA Medical Centers in Washington: Mann-Grandstaff, American Lake and Seattle. The VA will begin deployment in October with a go-live date of March 2020, O’Rourke said Tuesday.”
“But those sites don’t appear to be set in stone…” Read the full article here.
Source: Lawmakers cite VA leadership holes in EHR implementation with first go-live scheduled for 2020 – By Evan Sweeney, June 27, 2018. FierceHealthcare.
