“As the Department of Defense begins to deploy its new Cerner electronic health record system over the next five years, the military is leveraging important lessons learned from the EHR’s initial deployment…”
“As a result, going forward, Cummings said DoD has established a “six-month buffer” requirement for future deployments of MHS GENESIS so that the “modern” network—which provides the bandwidth needed for fast access to the system—is up and running and considered stable before EHR installation occurs.”
“In her testimony, Cummings indicated that about 90 percent of “incident reports” gathered at the pilot sites involved workflow and configuration, end user knowledge of the system, policy issues or recommendations for future enhancements.”
“She also revealed that the remaining 10 percent of the incident reports “can be traced to a defect in the software solution that makes up MHS GENESIS” and that “100 percent…” Read the full article here.
Source: DoD learning, resolving issues as it deploys new Cerner EHR – By Greg Slabodkin, April 4, 2019. Health Data Management.
