{"id":118724,"date":"2021-10-22T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T13:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=118724"},"modified":"2021-10-21T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T23:14:44","slug":"va-medical-record-overhaul-could-be-completed-by-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=118724","title":{"rendered":"VA medical record overhaul could be completed by 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to VA officials, delays will not change their projection that the VA medical record overhaul will be done sometime in 2028. This overhaul would put the VA’s system on the same platform as the DOD’s system. Those who join the military will be able to access their medical records in one place from the time they join the military through the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n

From the Military Times:<\/span><\/p>\n

Remy’s statement was met with skepticism from members of the committee, who noted years of missteps and failures with the medical records effort.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had a long string of leaders at the VA tell us that the intention is to finish in 10 years, that the intention is to be transparent, that the intention is to not affect patient safety. And none of that ever happens,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., chairwoman of the committee’s panel on veterans issues.<\/p>\n

In 2018, President Donald Trump’s administration announced plans for a 10-year, $16-billion overhaul of VA’s medical records with the goal of putting the veterans system on the same platform as the Department of Defense. The idea was to provide a single, flexible and lifelong records system for troops and veterans, a goal of outside advocates for years.<\/p>\n

But in March, after more than three years of work, department leaders halted the program after uncovering serious problems — including potential patient safety issues — with the roll out.<\/p>\n

That delayed planned deployment of the new system — Cerner’s Millennium software — at several sites this year, and raised questions about the long-term viability of the project.<\/p>\n

Remy acknowledged the patient safety issues — issues like missing medical information or potential medication conflicts — presented a serious threat, but he also said none of the problems resulted in harm to any patients at the initial rollout sites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military Times has the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to VA officials, delays will not change their projection that the VA medical record overhaul will be done sometime in 2028. This overhaul would put the VA’s system on the same platform as the DOD’s system. Those who join the military will be able to access their medical records in one place from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-uSU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}