New in 2023: VA health records overhaul faces critical juncture

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New in 2023: VA health records overhaul faces critical juncture
By Leo Shane III
 Dec 30, 01:01 PM
Capt. Katie Barnack, an emergency room nurse, and Lt. Col. Valerie Sams, a trauma surgeon, use a ditigal health records system at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, on March 30, 2019. (Capt. Anna-Marie Wyant/Air Force)

The Department of Veterans Affairs electronic health records overhaul has been underway for five years, but events coming in 2023 could decide whether the effort still has any future.

The 10-year, $16 billion health records modernization project started in 2017 under then President Donald Trump and was touted as a way to provide better care to troops and veterans throughout their lives.

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