VA’s proposed FY25 budget includes zero funding for future deployments of its new EHR system and allocates no additional funds for assessing rollouts at other sites

The White House’s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget would allocate more than $369 billion to the Department of Veterans Affairs but would not provide funding directly toward any new deployments of VA’s modernized electronic health record system amid an ongoing pause to address challenges with the software’s rollout.

VA’s budget proposal represents a roughly 10% increase over the estimated FY24 budget total and would boost spending for a number of departmentwide priorities, including efforts to prevent veteran suicides, enhance claims processing and expand access to critical services…

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Source: Biden budget cuts funding for health record refresh amid ongoing program ‘reset’. By Edward Graham, March 13, 2024. NextGov.

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