Two of the top Republicans on the House Veterans Affairs Committee are leading colleagues in calling on the VA to postpone future rollouts of its new, multibillion-dollar Electronic Health Record until improvements are made.

The VA Electronic Health Record Modernization Improvement Act would require VA, along with vendor Cerner and its parent company, Oracle, to demonstrate “significant improvements” in the EHR system before installing it at additional VA medical centers…

VA Secretary Denis McDonough told reporters on Tuesday that said the VA still has a “particular need” to migrate to an EHR that’s interoperable with the Defense Department.

“We want to be in a position where we can easily access a service member’s records, going back through all of her years in active duty. So our ability to be able to do that with DoD is extraordinarily important,” McDonough said… Read the full article here.