“The Department of Veterans Affairs has claimed incremental progress in the massive project to make health records compatible with those of the Pentagon and participating private doctors, but the ultimate cost remains in question, according to the Government Accountability Office.”
“In a report last week, the GAO said that the VA “lacked insight into the total costs for the current system” of electronic health records, making it difficult to predict how much more it will cost to go to a new system…”
“In addition, Carol Harris, director of information technology acquisition management at the GAO, testified at a House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization last week that the $2.3 billion figure is probably off the mark.”
“She said that the VA’s total spending on VistA from 2015 to 2017 “is likely to be more than the $2.3 billion…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Claims Progress on Health Records System, But Can’t Account for Money Spent – By Richard Sisk, August 6, 2019. Military.com.
