“…VA will focus on building upon VA’s EHR foundation and improving and iterating to rapidly disseminate applications. Adirim said that this could reduce time spent updating the system from months to potentially hours.
The agency will also drive standardized, evidence-based care across the enterprise to develop standard workflows, remove redundancies and provide a uniformed patient experience for veterans. An integral part of these advancements is VA’s IT infrastructure. The agency is modernizing its infrastructure with a focus on interoperability to improve access to patient data.
“I get excited about the fact that this releases our ability for us to access data,” said Dr. Chuck Kowalewski, a physician informaticist from the VA’s functional champion team, at the conference. “I really appreciate the idea of a centralized, structured database that can be shared in interoperability.”
As part of VA’s effort to improve data sharing, the agency is also structuring standards and roadmaps. This guidance will enable VA to better analyze how workflows, technology, infrastructure and language can be brought together to create common workflows…”
“VA’s new EHR also includes a data analytics tool called the Lights on Network, which processes information activity every night to create data dashboards and usability metrics. The agency in leveraging this tool to reinforce its data-driven approach to modernizing the EHR…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA’s Terry Adirim: EHR is a ‘Challenge and an Opportunity’ – By Sarah Sybert, March 17, 2022. GovCIO.
