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Friday it would pause all future deployments and instead focus on improvements at five locations where the new system is currently in use. “We’ve heard from Veterans and VA clinicians that the new electronic health record is not meeting expectations – and we’re holding Oracle Cerner and ourselves accountable to get this right,” VA Secretary Denis McDonough said in a statement on Friday.
The project, first announced in 2018, is supposed to create one joint patient record between the VA and the Department of Defense. The rollout has faced delays and technical and performance issues,with patient scheduling, prescription and lab orders and referrals, among others. The VA called the latest move a “reset” and it follows a previous “pause” that was supposed to last until June 2023.
Oracle said it supported the VA’s plan “to improve the operation of the EHR at the current sites and take the necessary time to institute governance, change management and standardization changes to ensure the success of future VA deployments,” in a statement from Mike Sicilia, executive vice president of Oracle Global Industries.Moderna has partnered with IBM to develop new medicines.
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