Data Integrity

VA EHR Rollout Increased ‘Risks for Errors’ in Veteran Health Care, Watchdog Warns

The IG reports found new EHR sometimes failed to indicate to providers that patients were flagged as being at high risk of suicide and gave VA providers an incomplete picture of patients’ health care data. Auditors also found health care providers’ requests for patients to receive lab work through the new EHR platform didn’t always reach the facility’s laboratory.