“While the Department of Veterans Affairs plans to implement a $10 billion Cerner electronic health record system over 10 years, the VA’s nominee to serve as CIO says he believes the timeline could be sped up.”
“In my early discussions with the Electronic Health Record Modernization Office, there were some expressions of options to pull milestones forward,” testified CIO nominee James Gfrerer on Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, which held a hearing to consider his nomination. “There is every sense of urgency to make that timeline under 10 years.”
“Gfrerer said that according to John Windom, acting chief health information officer of the VA’s Office of EHR Modernization, one of the risks to the project is “that in a 10-year program, it’s very easy to not be serious and urgent about those early milestones…”
“Gfrerer also made the case that “anytime you implement a commercial-off-the-shelf” system like Cerner, “there’s a huge change management component…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA CIO nominee says Cerner EHR could be rolled out sooner than 10 years – By Greg Slabodkin, September 7, 2018. HealthData Management.
