Posted on Jan 6, 2016
Department of Veterans Affairs picks up $233 million from Congress to fund VistA EHR upgrades
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RP Members check out this update for the Department of Veterans Affairs!
The Department of Veterans Affairs has received $233 million from the Congressional 2016 spending bill to help modernize its VistA electronic health record system.
The money allocated to VistA comes within $6 billion in discretionary spending for projects including cutting its huge backlog of disability claims and continuing construction projects. This funding, however, will come with close oversight from lawmakers.
The bill requires that either the CIO or Secretary of the VA submit plans to both the House and Senate appropriations committees for projects related to healthcare IT modernizations or systems development. From there, the committees must approve a request for a funding transfer if a project's cost rises or falls by more than $1 million. And the VA must follow a list of instructions in using the funding to improve VistA.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has received $233 million from the Congressional 2016 spending bill to help modernize its VistA electronic health record system.
The money allocated to VistA comes within $6 billion in discretionary spending for projects including cutting its huge backlog of disability claims and continuing construction projects. This funding, however, will come with close oversight from lawmakers.
The bill requires that either the CIO or Secretary of the VA submit plans to both the House and Senate appropriations committees for projects related to healthcare IT modernizations or systems development. From there, the committees must approve a request for a funding transfer if a project's cost rises or falls by more than $1 million. And the VA must follow a list of instructions in using the funding to improve VistA.
Department of Veterans Affairs picks up $233 million from Congress to fund VistA EHR upgrades
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Read this and then, guess what I think about this.
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense spent at least $1.3 billion during the last four years trying unsuccessfully to develop a single electronic health-records system between the two departments — leaving veterans’ disability claims to continue piling up in paper files across the country, a News21 investigation shows.
This does not include billions of other dollars wasted during the last three decades, including $2 billion spent on a failed upgrade to the DOD’s existing electronic health-records system.
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense spent at least $1.3 billion during the last four years trying unsuccessfully to develop a single electronic health-records system between the two departments — leaving veterans’ disability claims to continue piling up in paper files across the country, a News21 investigation shows.
This does not include billions of other dollars wasted during the last three decades, including $2 billion spent on a failed upgrade to the DOD’s existing electronic health-records system.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs Interesting that the VA has to go back and submit plans to appropriations before getting the money allocated.
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