VA professional association asks Congress ‘to pause further deployments’ of new EHR
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ByEdward Graham,
Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW
October 30, 2026 05:24 PM ET
The National Association of Veteran Affairs Physicians and Dentists sent a letter to top lawmakers that asked them to only allow new EHR deployments to resume after VA has “completed an independent patient-safety assessment at the converted sites.”
A leading association representing physicians and dentists across the Department of Veterans Affairs’ network of almost 170 medical facilities is calling on lawmakers to halt additional rollouts of the agency’s new Oracle Health electronic health record system until independent evaluations of the software can be conducted.
In an Oct. 12-dated letter, the National Association of Veteran Affairs Physicians and Dentists asked Congress “to pause further deployments of the Oracle electronic health record (EHR) while protecting funding for patient care and safety at the...
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