Officials said they are preparing to deploy the new records system at “the most integrated facility” in the Defense and Veterans Affairs health care net.
The Veterans Administration failed to produce reliable cost estimates of upgrade to physical infrastructure, which are needed for its multibillion dollar EHR switch.
In a newly released report, the inspector general at the Department of Veterans Affairs indicates that the $16 billion estimate for the switch to the Cerner electronic health record system doesn t incorporate billions in needed physical infrastructure costs.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report this week making recommendations for the ongoing Department of Veterans Affairs IT modernization program.
As noted in the GAO report, the VA has been attempting to replace its aging financial and acquisitions systems with an integrated system for years.
The latest deployment, in November 2020, followed some IT best practices – but the cost and schedule estimates only minimally or partially met many others, said the report. Following information technology management best practices on major transformation efforts … can help build a foundation for ensuring responsibility, accountability, and transparency, wrote report authors.
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