“The Department of Veterans Affairs could be getting almost all of the money it asked Congress for under the White House’s fiscal 2021 budget request, including a double-digit percent increase in IT funding.”
“The House Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee proposed a $104.8 billion discretionary budget for the VA, just $35 million shy of the department’s 2021 budget request. Part of the $12.3 billion increase over fiscal 2020 enacted funding levels is for long-overdue IT modernization needs at the VA. The draft legislation would approve $4.9 billion for IT — a 12% increase over 2020…”
“The legislation is still subject to a subcommittee markup which will take place July 7.”
“Funding for the VA’s massive electronic health record modernization continues on an upward trajectory, with $2.6 billion proposed the program, a $1.1 billion increase. The EHR modernization is designed to completely revamp the VA’s health record system, giving it new scheduling software and making its records interoperable with the DOD’s own modernized system. Both programs have experienced implementation delays due to the coronavirus pandemic…” Read the full article here.
Source: House appropriators propose $12B increase for VA’s budget, including big IT boost – By Jackson Barnett, July 6, 2020. FedScoop.
