“Over the next year to year-and-a-half, 76 Veterans Affairs Department staff working at medical facilities across the country will participate in an immersive training program on the agency’s evolving electronic health records program.”
“The new training regimen—dubbed the VA Innovative Technology Advancement Lab, or VITAL—will focus on how clinicians and front-office staff can use the department’s new EHR system to solve problems in real-world contexts.”
“VA has been working with its contractor, Cerner Corp., to develop a customized EHR system that will modernize the health care delivered to some 23.5 million veterans while simultaneously creating an interoperable environment that will connect directly with a similar system being developed for the Defense Department, known as MHS GENESIS.”
“VA plans to begin rolling out the new system in the spring of 2020. However, learning from initial issues with the deployment of MHS GENESIS, VA has opted to create a new training ecosystem to ensure its employees are ready for the transition…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Launches VITAL Training Ahead of First Electronic Health Records Rollout – By Aaron Boyd, September 16, 2019. Nextgov.
