“The Department of Veterans Affairs has created two new senior technical management positions to oversee its electronic health records modernization program.”
“A new deputy CIO for EHR and a program executive director for EHR integration will work on the $16 billion, 10-year IT system overhaul, according to a VA press release issued Wednesday.”
“The new program executive director for integration is Dr. Terry Adirim, who is also the acting assistant secretary for health affairs at the Department of Defense. Adirim will report directly to the deputy secretary, the top official overseeing the entire EHR program. The new deputy CIO, who has not be hired yet, will assume all tech integration functions and communication with technical staff at local sites.”
“In the update Wednesday, VA said also that it had developed a revised timeline for the rollout of the new records management system across the department.”
“Other changes include a ‘significantly strengthened’ Office of the Functional Champion, which advocates for patient safety within the EHR teams. Several patient safety issues were previously reported at the first site to get the EHR system in Spokane, Washington. Some of the reported issues related to the distribution of medication…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA creates two new management positions to oversee EHR – By Jackson Barnett, December 1, 2021. FedScoop.
