We provide clear, fact-based analysis to improve veterans’ healthcare and benefits
WHAT’S NEW WITH VHPI
REPORT: Examination of the Department of Veterans Affairs Systemic Failure in Its Electronic Health Record Modernization Program
“Since 2018, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been engaged in an Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program that will, over the course of ten years, replace VA’s current electronic health record, VistA (the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture), with a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product whose lifetime budget was estimated at $16 billion.”
Edward Francis Meagher analyzes the origins of the EHRM program, the consequences of continuing it, and proposes a clear path forward that will ensure that VHA and VBA staff have the information they need to deliver healthcare and benefits to our nation’s veterans.
WHO WE ARE
Founded by veterans, healthcare providers, and journalists in 2016, the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank that provides clear, fact-based analysis to improve veterans’ healthcare and benefits. We help the public, policy makers, and the media understand that the VA is the only healthcare system in America that has the expertise needed to provide high quality care for our veterans. Plus, the VA serves all Americans through its clinical, research, and teaching missions. More than this, the VA pressure tests solutions to many of the nation’s most pressing social problems, from reducing homelessness, to improving health equity.
