“Officials from the Veterans Affairs Department told House lawmakers Wednesday they expect to pilot initial operating capabilities of its new electronic health records platform in March 2020 across three sites in the Pacific Northwest…”
“However, VA has a lot of work to do before any pilot of Cerner’s Millennium health records software could go live.”
“One of the major challenges underway involves mapping all 131 nationwide instances of Vista, VA’s current health records platform and getting the data into a format Cerner can view. The end goal is for VA to migrate all its health records data from all its systems to a single enterprisewide system that is interoperable with the Pentagon’s health records system and private health care providers. The Defense Department, meanwhile, has experienced its own major issues developing its new health records system with Cerner…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA to Pilot Health Records System in March 2020 – By Frank Konkel, March 6, 2019. Nextgov.
