VA won’t restart health records overhaul until next summer, if at all

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VA won’t restart health records overhaul until next summer, if at all
By Leo Shane III
Thursday, Sep 14
A visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif., on April 2, 2015. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

Veterans Affairs officials aren’t planning to restart deployment of its new electronic health records system until at least next summer, but lawmakers are warning even that may be too optimistic, given continued software problems.

Leaders from the House and Senate are negotiating legislation that would mandate stricter oversight plus performance benchmarks for the embattled $10-billion medical records project, which remains stalled due to reliability and useability issues.

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