“The fiscal 2023 budget would provide the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with an additional $1.8 billion for its Cerner EHR modernization (EHRM) project.”
“If approved by lawmakers, the budget would also provide VA’s Office of Information Technology with an additional $5.8 billion to support cybersecurity, financial management transformation, claims automation, and the infrastructure readiness program, according to the White House.”
“The funding comes as VA wrestles with technical issues that have plagued the EHRM rollout.”
“On March 3, the department took the Cerner EHR system offline at VA’s Mann-Grandstaff medical center in Spokane, Washington, after finding a technical defect in a software update.”
“Last week, VA and EHR vendor Cerner announced that they would perform a “full root cause analysis” and establish an action plan to prevent further outages after a software bug affected the EHR system at the Mann-Grandstaff VA hospital.”
“The software bug resulted in a system mixup of certain patient records, leading staff at the VA hospital and associated clinics in Washington and Idaho to revert to paper records.”
“Additionally, the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a trio of reports that identified significant patient safety concerns…” Read the full article here.
Source: Fiscal 2023 Budget Includes $1.8B for VA Cerner EHRM Project – By Hannah Nelson, March 28, 2022. EHR Intelligence.
