“The House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on IT Modernization recently held a hearing on the Department of Veterans Affairs electronic health record modernization (EHRM) program to assess progress to date. The hearing was remarkable on several levels but perhaps the most remarkable was the bipartisan and positive support for this program from both sides of the aisle. Congress clearly wants this program to succeed and wants to be as helpful as possible…”
“Recipe for disaster
One of the benefits of getting old is that you have a large store of first-hand experience. So, I have seen this debacle play out several times before in my career.”
“This is VA’s infamous COREFLS debacle on steroids. COREFLS was a $250 million failed attempt to force massive business process change from the top down without regard to the needs and concerns of the end user.”
“All of the ingredients for a repeat are here. This whole program is premised on a lie. The lie is that VistA is broken. It is not. It needs modernization. Times are changing, requirements are changing, medicine is changing and technology is changing. When that happens, the responsible thing to do is to evaluate the modernization of VistA versus the buying of a commercial product…” Read the full article here.
Source: 10 ingredients making VA’s e-health record program sick – By Ed Meagher, November 29, 2018. Federal News Network.
