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Healthcare Informatics: A Leading CHIO Discusses the VA’s Progress on Health IT Innovation

“…Francine Sandrow, M.D., chief health information officer (CHIO) at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, is involved in a number of VHA clinical informatics initiatives…”

“Currently, Sandrow is involved with the VA’s work to standardize instances of the VA’s EHR, known as VistA, in preparation for the roll out of a new Cerner EHR platform, scheduled to be deployed at three sites in Washington state by 2020…”

“This gives the VA an incredible opportunity, as it’s allowing a veteran to have telehealth visits with any VA provider, regardless of where the patient is or where the provider is,” Sandrow says, noting that…” Read the full article here.

Source: A Leading CHIO Discusses the VA’s Progress on Health IT Innovation – By Heather Landi, July 23, 2018. Healthcare Informatics.

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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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