“As the Department of Veterans Affairs continues its electronic health record modernization (EHRM) journey, key leaders are looking to industry to deliver innovative technologies that boost efficiency for the end user.”
“‘It all goes to efficiencies,’ said Laura Prietula, acting deputy CIO of VA’s EHR Modernization Integration Office, during an FCWevent. ‘We really are getting to the efficiencies for population health, for evidence-based medicine, for all these point-of-care decisions, so that we can have the information at the fingertips of those that are having to make life-changing decisions.'”
“In her new role, Prietula is bringing the new electronic health record technology into facilities across VA, including transitioning away from the agency’s VistA technology toward new products and technologies. Migrating VistA data to the new Cerner platform is essential for creating a unified VA record.”
“’We are the largest health care organization in the nation, and we would like to make sure that we’re not excluding industry,’ Prietula said. ‘We want to work with industry. … We want to make sure that we have this charge of deploying this electronic health record in a modernized way. And we welcome innovation — we welcome all participants to make sure that we have these forward-thinking products.'”
“To support the transition, VA has released a request for information (RFI) to industry to ascertain how the agency wants medical device manufacturers and other groups to connect with the Cerner system. Prietula said the RFI has better defined the EHR stack and the baseline for VA’s core products, including a list of all the products for biomedical devices and medical devices that VA will be publishing as part of its ‘core…'” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Outlines How Industry Can Support EHR Implementation – By Sarah Sybert, April 29, 2022. GovCIO.
