"The Department of Veterans Affairs is only months away from restarting deployments of its new Oracle Health electronic health record system, and officials from the agency and company say they have smoothed out many of the problems that have plagued the modernization project. With rollouts of the new EHR system set to resume after a long hiatus, 2026 will be a make-or-break year for the expansive and costly effort."
"The new EHR software has been implemented at just six of VA's 170 medical centers, with one of the deployments - a joint rollout with the DOD at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, Illinois - happening last March during the operational freeze. VA and Oracle Health said the go-live at that site, which was deemed a success, would help inform medical facility deployments moving forward."
VA is preparing to restart deployments of the Oracle Health electronic health record system, aiming for a renewed rollout in 2026. The modernization effort began with a contract signed in May 2018 with Cerner, later acquired and rebranded by Oracle Health. Initial deployments started in 2020, but the program encountered setbacks including patient safety and usability concerns, prompting a pause in April 2023. Only six of 170 VA medical centers have received the new software. A joint DOD-VA rollout at the Lovell center was deemed successful and will inform future deployments, with four Michigan sites targeted in mid-2026.
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