Electronic health records: Additional DOD actions could improve cost and schedule estimating for new system : report to congressional committees
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Alternate Title(s):
- Additional DOD actions could improve cost and schedule estimating for new system: report to congressional committees
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body. United States. Congress, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, June 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Electronic Health Records -- economics Government Regulation Practice Guidelines as Topic -- standards United States United States. Department of Defense
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Why GAO did this study. DOD operates one of the nation’s largest health care systems providing health care to about 9.6 million beneficiaries. It relies on multiple legacy electronic health record systems to create, maintain, and manage patient health information. DOD determined that these systems, implemented over the past three decades, require modernization and replacement with a comprehensive, real-time electronic health record, MHS GENESIS. Congress included a provision in the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 for GAO to review DOD’s deployment of MHS GENESIS. This report determines the extent to which DOD’s MHS GENESIS’s cost estimate and program schedule are consistent with best practices. GAO reviewed documentation supporting the program’s October 2020 cost estimate against best practices. In addition, GAO reviewed the program’s February 2021 integrated master schedule, specifically assessing three subproject schedules. Further, GAO interviewed DOD officials within the program office to understand their practices for developing and maintaining the cost estimate and program schedule. What GAO recommends. GAO is making two recommendations to DOD that it develop reliable cost and schedule estimates for the MHS GENESIS program that are consistent with GAO-identified best practices. DOD concurred with GAO’s recommendations.
- 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, 23 pages))
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918470885606676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918470885606676