Top lawmakers tasked with overseeing the Department of Veterans Affairs have introduced competing bills to enhance oversight of VA’s new electronic heal.
(The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis wants to halt implementing a new Department of Veterans Affairs electronic health record system blamed for multiple deaths and other problems.
After leading GOP lawmakers introduced legislation to terminate the deployment of VA’s new electronic health record program, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. ch.
U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan is continuing in his second term to serve on two House committees focused on the needs of organized labor, workers, veterans, teachers and students.
Two Congresspeople recently introduced a bill seeking to terminate the VA's Oracle Cerner EHR rollout. The legislation said that the project is too flawed and costly to carry on the lawmakers called for VA facilities to revert back to the department’s internally developed EHR.