The Department of Veterans Affairs' Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) Sprint Report highlighted various changes needed for the structure for decision-making, the processes for go-live decisions and other solutions that improve patient care... “These systems in many ways drive how health care is delivered, how work gets done, how patient care encounters are orchestrated, how communication and handoffs occur and how those patients and health care providers access the data that they need for decision-making and more. These systems are extremely complex, and they need to be highly reliable, available and performing at all times,” Dr. Neil Evans, acting program executive director for the Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office (EHRM-IO), said during a Senate Committee of Veterans Affairs hearing March 15. The report recommended solutions to improve patient care, including improving accuracy, enterprise standardization and reliability of data collected for uploading to the new system; bolstering management of clinical and administrative order; and enhancing standardization of EHR naming conventions to ease cognitive burden and better support VA’s enterprise scale... Read the full article here.