"Speaking at GovCIO's Health IT Summit, Dr. Neil Evans - acting program executive director of VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office - said the focus of the modernization project still remains on usability and operational effectiveness of the system, although he added that achieving those goals will also set the stage for the potential embrace of other tech solutions moving forward."
""You've got to do [the EHR rollout] in a very rigorous and careful way to make sure that we do not disrupt operations in the nation's largest healthcare system," Evans said. "But that work is foundational work we need to do because it's what allows us to then continue. It is a piece of the roadmap forward to say, 'Let's continue to innovate and deliver technologies.'""
The Department of Veterans Affairs is prioritizing successful deployment and operational usability of the new Oracle Health electronic health record system before integrating additional innovative capabilities. Focus remains on usability and operational effectiveness to avoid disrupting the nation's largest healthcare system. Most rollouts were paused in April 2023 after patient safety concerns, technical outages, and usability issues; a March 2024 joint VA-DoD medical facility in North Chicago was an exception. The Oracle Health EHR is interoperable with the Pentagon's modernized Oracle system. The system has been implemented at six of 170 medical centers. Deployments will restart at 13 facilities in 2026, with a goal of full deployment by 2031 and continued optimization opportunities.
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