The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to go live April 11 with its new Oracle Health EHR at four medical centers in Michigan, The Detroit News reported April 10.
The sites will be Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit and Saginaw. The EHR rollout had been on hold since 2023 as the agency and vendor worked out patient safety and technical concerns.
“Experiences like that do not disappear. They stay with people. They shape expectations and they create skepticism, not the kind you can talk your way out of, and that’s understandable and earned,” Deputy VA Secretary Paul Lawrence, PhD, said at an April 10 ceremony covered by the newspaper.
But he said the VA and Oracle Health are ready this time around. They plan to launch the EHR at another nine medical centers by the end of 2026 and could finish the implementation by 2031.
“Already, folks in the VA system are knowing how well this is going to go. They’re asking to be moved up,” Dr. Lawrence said at the event, per the news outlet.
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