Lawmakers demand fixes in VA health records before any more rollouts

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Lawmakers demand fixes in VA health records before any more rollouts
By Leo Shane III
Jan 31, 03:17 PM
The Mann-Grandstaff Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., is one of the sites using the department's new electronic health records system. (VA)

Veterans Affairs leaders would be blocked from deploying the department’s new electronic health records system at any additional medical centers until significant safeguards are put in place, under legislation introduced Tuesday by House Republicans.

“[The system] has crippled the delivery of care, put veteran patient safety at risk, and stressed an already overwhelmed healthcare system,” House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., said in a statement accompanying the unveiling of the bill.

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