The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to foster a secure transition to its new Oracle Cerner electronic health records system through DevSecOps and other streamlined development practices.
Speaking at the GovCIO Media & Research Disruptive DevSecOps forum, Release Manager for VA’s EHRM Integration Office Linda Ennis discussed how the agency is overseeing an enterprise-wide process to securely update its EHR system and integrate new capacities without jeopardizing IT security…
Another method VA is using to foster a secure EHR transition is templatizing a process for connecting individual sites with the new EHR product, allowing information to be securely and automatically connected to the broader enterprise.
“The first step in setting up a new EHR configuration is to accurately represent the details of your medical practice and your patient information within the software. That means programming in the locations of your practice and the providers who will be using the system in order to design the practices’ clinical workflow, which includes the creation of clinical templates,” Ennis said… Read the full article here.
