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Electronic Health Records: VA Needs to Identify and Report System Costs

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 25, 2019
Release Date July 25, 2019
Report No. GAO-19-125
Summary:

The VA’s health information system is more than 30 years old and is costly to maintain. Over nearly 2 decades, VA’s multiple modernization efforts have continually fallen short.

In June 2017, VA announced it would buy the same system DOD is implementing. VA plans to continue using its current system during a decade-long transition.

We reviewed the early stages of this transition. Among other things, we found VA lacked insight into the total costs for the current system. This could make it more difficult to make decisions during the transition to the new system.

We recommended VA more reliably identify and report system costs.

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