Included in a batch of veterans-related bills the House passed May 22 is the Veterans’ Electronic Health Record Modernization Oversight Act (H.R.4245), which would require the agency to regularly ...

Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., who chairs the House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization, said he appreciated VA’s engagement with Congress “about establishing some metrics that ...

A little more than one year ago, Cleveland-based University Hospitals completed its transition to Epic, a process that converted 5.6 million patient records and scheduling systems into one EHR. UH ...

The following article is written by Ann O’Neill, director of clinical operations, Regent Surgical Health. In my last column (“Electronic Health Records: What Does it Mean and Do We Have to Go There?“) ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday officially announced the nine additional VA medical facilities slated to receive the new Oracle Health electronic health record system next year as part of ...

Electronic health record (EHR) systems centralize and streamline patient data, much like customer relationship management (CRM) systems organize customer data for small businesses. EHR platforms ...

Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Ill., is concerned that staffing vacancies, coupled with the department’s reduction in force plans, will put “more pressure onto the VA to execute on an expedited calendar for ...

Fully deploying the Department of Veterans Affairs’ new electronic health record system is necessary for streamlining veteran care and retaining clinicians, VA Secretary Doug Collins told members of ...

Charles Perry, MD, resigned from his CMIO post at Queens and Elmhurst Hospital Centers in New York on March 4 reportedly with the dire warning that a planned April 1 Epic EHR implementation could lead ...