Re: [Hardhats] Digest for hardhats@googlegroups.com - 2 updates in 1 topic

[Gary Shumway]

>$20 Billion if 'on the books' means funds spent or encumbered.

From link Nancy provided:

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"Cerner was acquired by Oracle for $28.3 billion in a deal that closed in June 2022.  <“We’re building a system where all American citizens’ health records not only exist at the hospital level, but they also are in a unified national health records database,” Ellison said from https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23162503/oracle-cerner-health-records-data-interoperability>

But the implementation and migration of health records were soon hobbled by software outages and technical issues, complicated further by the onset of the pandemic. Various oversight bodies have estimated that VA has more than $20 billion on the books for the program.

A July 2022 report by the VA's Office of Inspector General found that the health record software sent 11,000 clinical orders to a queue assigned for requests with incomplete routing information and failed to alert clinicians that the orders didn't reach their intended destination.

As a result, the report noted that the error "placed patients at risk for incomplete care, and caused multiple events of patient harm" to nearly 150 veterans.

VA officials postponed further rollouts until January, but Rosendale said last July that the department might be better off sticking with the legacy system."

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Bill to scrap the EHR Modernization Program

Nancy Anthracite <nanth...@earthlink.net>: Jan 31 11:29AM -0500 https://fcw.com/congress/2023/01/house-bill-would-scrap-vas-20-billion-plus-electronic-health-record-program/382380/   -- Nancy Anthracite

Joseph Dal Molin <dalm...@worldvista.org>: Jan 31 11:51AM -0500 Any idea how much $$ has been spent so far?   On 2023-01-31 11:29 a.m., Nancy Anthracite wrote:

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