Electronic health records: VA has made progress in preparing for new system, but subsequent test findings will need to be addressed : report to Congressional committees
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Government Accountability Office. issuing body. United States. Congress. issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, February 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Electronic Health Records -- standards Government Regulation United States United States. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Why GAO did this study. VA relies on its health information system— the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA)—to deliver health care to 9 million patients annually. VistA contains the department’s EHR and exchanges information with many other applications and interfaces. However, VistA is a technically complex system, has been in operation for more than 30 years, is costly to maintain, and does not fully support VA’s needs. In May 2018, VA contracted to acquire a commercial EHR system as part of its EHRM program over 10 years at a maximum cost of $10 billion. GAO was asked to review VA’s EHR deployment. This report discusses progress VA is making on implementing the new EHR system, among other topics. To perform its review, GAO assessed VA’s progress toward making system configuration decisions, developing system capabilities, developing system interfaces, completing end user training, and resolving system test findings. GAO also interviewed relevant officials. What GAO recommends. GAO is making two recommendations, including that VA should postpone deployment of its new EHR system at planned locations until any resulting critical and high severity test findings are appropriately addressed. VA concurred with the recommendations and described actions the department plans to take to address them.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (ii, 54 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918317781406676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918317781406676