{"id":72594,"date":"2017-06-06T14:34:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T18:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72594"},"modified":"2017-06-06T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T18:36:58","slug":"shulkin-va-will-adopt-dods-health-records-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72594","title":{"rendered":"Shulkin: VA will adopt DoD&#8217;s health records system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/jun\/5\/donald-trump-overhaul-va-medical-records-system-li\/\">Washington Times<\/a> which reports that VA Secretary David J. Shulkin announced last night the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department will adopt the same electronic healthcare records filing system that the Department of Defense uses so the two can more easily transfer records. I know this doesn&#8217;t seem like a big deal, but the VA, for the last twelve years has spent billions of dollars trying to build a system that was compatible with the Pentagon&#8217;s system instead of just using the same system.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI have decided that VA will adopt the same [electronic health records] system as DoD,\u201d Mr. Shulkin said. \u201cIt\u2019s time to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump said the use of two separate systems \u201chas caused massive problems for our veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are finally taking steps to solve the situation once and for all,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Shulkin is issuing a waiver on open bidding requirements due to \u201cthe urgency and the critical nature of this decision.\u201d The move means that the VA can issue a solicitation directly to Cerner Corporation for acquisition of the EHR system currently used by the Defense Department.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans likely won\u2019t see changes for several years, with the software contract to be forged over the next six months, and the system\u2019s custom design and implementation to take much longer. Mr. Shulkin couldn\u2019t estimate the eventual cost but noted that the VA system will be bigger and more complex than the Pentagon\u2019s, which cost about $4.3 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like I said, the department has flushed billions of dollars into the black hole of contractors with no results, other than a long list of failures. Those failures were used as an excuse by the last few secretaries for not processing claims fast enough.<\/p>\n<p>This should have been done from the start. At least someone with some common sense seems to be in charge now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David sends us a link to the Washington Times which reports that VA Secretary David J. &hellip; <a title=\"Shulkin: VA will adopt DoD&#8217;s health records system\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72594\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shulkin: VA will adopt DoD&#8217;s health records system<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}