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VA’s Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization needs help – Plans to Hire 135

“I NEED HELP”: Thus spoke John Windom, the former military contract officer running the VA’s Cerner implementation, at a MITRE Corp.-hosted interoperability forum on Tuesday. Windom, who has been subject to skepticism because he lacked health, IT, or health IT experience prior to leading the military and VA EHR contracting processes, said he needs to hire 135 people to his Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization over the next six months, bringing its total staffing to 265…

Meanwhile, Lauren Thompson, leader of the VA/DoD Interagency Program Office, said she was setting up three governance bodies to…” Read the full newsletter here.

Source: “I NEED HELP” – By Darius Tahir, November 28, 2018. POLITICO Morning eHealth.

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Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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