The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced on Friday that it will postpone the second publication of the Cerner Electronic Health Record due to a surge in employee COVID-19 cases.
As reported by Federal News NetworkJory Heckman, a new working day at the Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Columbus, Ohio, has been postponed from March 5th to April 30th.
“This is not a decision based on the preparation or lack of a Columbus facility,” Heckman said in a phone call with reporters last week.
Important reason
As Heckman wrote, Cerner’s EHR system is “fully built” in Columbus, and the delay in getting up and running is due to the lack of workers available for scheduled training.
According to Bryant, hundreds of employees at the Chalmers P. Wiley Emergency Medical Center were absent from work as of Thursday, creating a delay, especially for so-called superusers.
“In a nutshell, your superuser is training trainers, basically trainers doing some sort of beta testing,” she said.
In other words, she continued, “users have better features and capabilities in using the Cerner Millennium tools.”
Brian said the agency’s goal is to maintain the goal with the revised deployment schedule announced at the end of last year.
“We can’t guarantee that the pandemic won’t cause any further problems,” she said, as Heckman reported.
However, she added, “The reason I’m confident that I can keep my schedule going well in VA’s senior management is due to the modifications I made through the strategic preview.”
Big trend
This news is the first news from VA on the deployment of EHR since Oracle acquired Cerner for $ 28.3 billion in late 2021.
The agency has faced turmoil in Cerner’s deployment over the past year, but a VA representative said: Healthcare IT News Do not expect the transaction to affect the rollout.
“It’s not VA’s practice to comment on vendors’ business decisions, but Oracle’s acquisition of Cerner is unlikely to impact VA’s electronic health record modernization process,” a VA spokeswoman said. Said last week.
On record
“With the proliferation of pandemics in the Columbus community, we need to support healthcare professionals while paying attention to meeting the medical needs of patients,” said Terry, Program Executive Director, Electronic Medical Record Modernization Integrated Office. Adilim said. Heckman.
Kat Jercich is a Senior Editor of Healthcare IT News.
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