The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to launch its new Oracle Health EHR at three to six medical centers when it resumes the rollout in 2026, MeriTalk reported Sept. 24.
The VA paused the EHR implementation in 2023 as the two organizations addressed technical concerns. The agency plans to go live at 13 medical centers next year and the remaining 145 facilities by 2031.
“When we go live in a local market, and there’s a period of time where a medical center that collaborates very closely with its neighboring medical center are on two different electronic health records, it introduces all kinds of complexity,” Neil Evans, MD, acting program executive director of the VA’s EHR Modernization Integration Office, said on Sept. 23 at GovCIO’s Health IT Summit, according to MeriTalk.
“So, by going live all at once as a cohort, we allow ourselves to build a sense of community around this deployment cycle and help eliminate some of that sort of transitional stress where we’re [going to] have people in sort of phased fashions on different go-lives.”
The Oracle Health EHR, which could cost as much as $50 billion, is live at six VA medical centers.
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