Roe “looks forward to modernizing VA’s health care records by fully implementing the new Cerner Electronic Health Records program. VA Secretary David Shulkin selected Cerner in a no-bid contract last June to replace the agency’s legacy Vista EHR as a way to align data between the VA and the Department of Defense, which already runs on Cerner. The contract is estimated at about $10 billion or more.”
“Roe, drawing upon his own experience as a physician with military experience, said putting any electronic health record system into place is a challenge. “We implemented one in my practice about ten years ago and it is not easy to do. It’s painful for the providers to change how they’re doing it.””
“There has to be a cloud-based system where doctors like me, who weren’t part of the VA, can access V.A. medical records and then send the records back, Roe said. “It’s going to be a enormous undertaking to convert this system.”
“What we’ve learned in the private sector through the Medicare Modernization that you need a…”
Source: Roe uses experience, leadership to guide VA evolution – January 12, 2018, By Terry Wing, Federal News Radio. Read the full article here.
