The Department of Veterans Affairs is in the process of overhauling the country’s oldest electronic health record system at the country’s largest hospital network. The new health record software is supposed to increase efficiency and speed up care in the beleaguered veterans’ health system, which serves more than nine million veterans. But when the department put it into use for the first time in October at a V.A. One found that the company that was awarded a no-bid contract by the Trump administration to do the overhaul underestimated costs by billions. Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., were given a test afterward to see whether they had learned to use it proficiently.

Source: New York Times July 09, 2021 20:37 UTC