VA must Accelerate EHR Deployments, says Oracle

There's been an uptick in conversations with senators on Capitol Hill centered on the stalled, problematic and costly Veterans Affairs electronic health records modernization project this past week. According to Seema Verma, Oracle Health and Oracle Life Sciences executive vice president, a national standard for change management along with advanced testing automation, web-based and virtual tools and the company's partners could push the project at scale to the finish line in a "timely manner."Meanwhile, the Government Accountability Office added three new recommendations for cost estimating, schedule and system metrics, bringing its total recommendations to improve the beleaguered electronic health records modernization project to 18. To date, the VA has implemented one of the recommendations since the office began investigating the system in 2020, the GAO said in a new draft report released Feb. 21.

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In a prepared statement to the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs at a Feb. 19 hearing on his pending nomination for VA deputy secretary, Lawrence pledged to work with lawmakers to "get VA’s [EHR] modernization effort back on track."If confirmed, Lawrence would effectively be the chief operating officer of the VA's EHR implementation.Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, asked what he would do about the agency's past mistakes.Lawrence answered that he would "foot stomp urgency" and noted that driving accountability with measurement helped him in his past role as the under-secretary for benefits leading the Veterans Benefits Administration.

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