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US GAO Recommends VA Pause EHR Modernization Project

GAO said VA needs to address critical and high severity test findings before launching the EHR Modernization project at future sites.

US GAO VA EHR Modernization

Source: Department of Veterans Affairs

By Christopher Jason

- The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommended the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) should postpone future deployments of its new Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) system.

GAO said VA should postpone future deployments until “any resulting critical and high severity test findings are appropriately addressed.”

Following three delays since November 2019, VA launched the EHRM system at the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA in October 2020.