“After pausing deployment of its new electronic health record system to deal with a laundry list of technical and workflow issues, the Defense Department will begin again in 2019, rolling out the platform at military health facilities on the West Coast, the head of the program said Thursday.”
“Still, Stacy Cummings, leader of the Program Executive Office-Defense Healthcare Management Systems, told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that the Defense Health Agency plans to have Medical Health System GENESIS fully operational by 2022, as originally scheduled…”
“… while we still have a few challenging areas where we’re working with the surgeons general, we’ve committed to making enhancements over the next year,” she said, explaining that they’ve resolved or are in the process of resolving about 1,000 of the items of concern. Of those remaining, she said, about 2,500 are enterprise “functional decisions that need to be made,” and another 2,000 “are currently in work by the Leidos…”
“Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., asked Cummings about her team’s engagement with the VA of late and if the recent removal of David Shulkin as the department’s secretary or the resignation of its acting CIO Scott Blackburn have affected that at all…” Read the full article here.
Source: DOD’s e-health record implementation to make a comeback in 2019 – By Billy Mitchell, April 27, 2018. FedScoop.
