{"id":30928,"date":"2023-04-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/04\/21\/va-halts-all-new-work-on-health-records-overhaul\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:58:28","slug":"va-halts-all-new-work-on-health-records-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/it-networks\/health-it\/2023\/04\/21\/va-halts-all-new-work-on-health-records-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"VA halts all new work on health records overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2023\/03\/31\/departing-va-deputy-sees-progress-success-in-department-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Veterans Affairs officials<\/a> on Friday announced a full halt to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2023\/04\/06\/va-delays-rollout-of-health-records-system-to-next-scheduled-sites\/\" target=\"_blank\">troubled electronic health records modernization project<\/a>, calling into question whether the $16-billion effort will be completely scrapped in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor the past few years, we\u2019ve tried to fix this plane while flying it, and that hasn\u2019t delivered the results that veterans or our staff deserve,\u201d Dr. Neil Evans, acting program executive director of VA\u2019s health records project, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move means that for the next few months \u2014 or possibly years \u2014 millions of patients and staff at VA medical centers will be left using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2023\/03\/07\/vet-agency-asks-why-fix-outdated-but-outgoing-record-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">department\u2019s aging records software<\/a>, which does not easily share information with the Defense Department\u2019s medical files system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But such a move may prove a relief to some employees who have watched anxiously as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2023\/02\/06\/oracle-exec-va-health-records-overhaul-is-only-real-option-for-vets\/\" target=\"_blank\">new Oracle Cerner system<\/a> has caused frustration and confusion at the first five VA sites where it has been installed. The new reset also avoids the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2022\/10\/13\/va-delays-health-record-rollout-again-this-time-until-summer-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\">piecemeal delays in deployments<\/a> that department leaders have announced multiple times over the last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VA officials said in a statement that they will not schedule any more system deployments \u201cuntil VA is confident that the new [record system] is highly functioning at current sites and ready to deliver for veterans and VA clinicians.\u201d Training that had been ongoing at future deployment sites will also be stopped<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2023\/04\/06\/va-delays-rollout-of-health-records-system-to-next-scheduled-sites\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Saginaw-VA-Medical-Center.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">VA delays rollout of health records system to next scheduled sites<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Staff at the VA Saginaw Healthcare System were scheduled to start training on the system next week.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The five sites already using the Oracle Cerner software \u2014 the Spokane VA Health Care System, the VA Walla Walla Health Care System, the Roseburg VA Health Care System, the VA Southern Oregon Health Care, and the VA Central Ohio Health Care System \u2014 will continue to rely on the new records platform as top-level officials look for ways to improve it for the entire Veterans Health Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are going to take the time necessary to get this right for veterans and VA clinicians alike,\u201d said Evans, the records project\u2019s acting program executive director. \u201cAnd that means focusing our resources solely on improving the [health records] at the sites where it is currently in use, and improving its fit for VA more broadly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement accompanying the announcement, Mike Sicilia \u2014 executive vice president of Oracle Global Industries \u2014 said his company \u201csupports VA\u2019s plan to improve the operation of the [records software] at the current sites and take the necessary time\u201d for additional changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted the pause is similar to procedures followed by the Defense Department several years ago, as it installed its new health records software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense officials are now nearing completion of their new health records system throughout military medical facilities. That system shares the same platform as the Oracle Cerner Millennium system being installed by VA. The goal behind the two efforts is to provide a lifelong, shared records system for troops\u2019 and veterans\u2019 health care needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But getting the two departments onto a shared system has proven elusive for decades. In 2014, leaders from the two departments received harsh criticism from lawmakers after a decade of work and more than $1 billion in spending failed to produce any meaningful path ahead for the separate systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, then President Donald Trump announced a new 10-year, $16-billion plan for VA to adopt the Millennium system. But problems at the five initial sites \u2014 including training gaps, system unreliability and concerns of patient harm \u2014 have delayed further rollout of the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawmakers in recent weeks have introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2023\/04\/04\/lawmakers-move-to-block-vas-plans-to-resume-health-records-rollout\/\" target=\"_blank\">a host of bills designed to further slow deployments<\/a> until performance and accountability benchmarks are met. In a statement on Friday, Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester, D-Mont., said he supported the latest VA halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis reset is a step in the right direction and shows that VA is serious about getting this program working for the veterans it serves,\u201d he said. \u201cThe system is simply far too important to the future of our veterans\u2019 health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Committee ranking member Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, echoed that sentiment adding that \u201cwithout these changes, it would be irresponsible to continue implementing the system at additional VA medical centers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evans said there is no timeline for when further rollouts of the records software may resume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re not creating a false urgency of a schedule that says we\u2019ve got to restart on some date,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re taking the time to get this right before we start again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2023\/03\/07\/vet-agency-asks-why-fix-outdated-but-outgoing-record-system\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22274571302918.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Vet agency asks why fix outdated-but-outgoing record system?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">But critics of the new health records modernization plan insist the current system can be improved instead of scrapped.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But several House Republicans have questioned whether a restart should happen at all. Last month, House Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee members held a hearing to discuss whether upgrading and modernizing VistA \u2014 VA\u2019s current, decades-old records system \u2014 was a cheaper and smarter alternative to the new Oracle Cerner partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a joint statement, committee Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., and Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont. (who leads the committee\u2019s technology panel) said even with the latest pause, VA and Oracle Cerner officials \u201cshare the burden of demonstrating whether the [records] system and this project are capable of wholesale improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VA officials testified that such a plan was not realistic, given the outdated nature of the software\u2019s base coding. 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