https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/08/veterans-military-health-system-trump-386232
We took a broken system and just broke it completely’
Trump touted a project to make veterans’ health care seamless, but some doctors say it’s a disaster.
By ARTHUR ALLEN
President Donald Trump last year hailed a multibillion-dollar initiative to create a seamless digital health system for active duty military and the VA that he said would deliver “faster, better, and far better quality care.”
But the military’s $4.3 billion Cerner medical record system has utterly failed to achieve those goals at the first hospitals that went online. Instead, technical glitches and poor training have caused dangerous errors and reduced the number of patients who can be treated, according to interviews with more than 25 military and Veterans Affairs health IT specialists and doctors, including six who work at the four Pacific Northwest military medical facilities that rolled out the software over the past year.
Four physicians at Naval Station Bremerton, in the Puget Sound, one of the first hospitals to go online, described an atmosphere so stressful that some clinicians quit because they were terrified they would hurt patients, or even kill them. Prescription requests came out wrong at the pharmacy. Physician referrals failed to go through to specialists. Physicians were unsure how to do basic things such as request lab reports.
Doctors complained it could take 10 minutes to get into the system, which then frequently kicked them out. The military’s ponderous cybersecurity system was largely to blame, but doctors were frustrated contractors hadn’t figured out a way to work around the problems, as they had with the previous electronic record system.
“We took a broken system and just broke it completely,” said one doctor, who like most of those interviewed requested anonymity because they lacked military authorization to speak about the project.
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Let's see, how can we blame Jared's brilliance on Obama? How about--it sounds like the roll out on the registering in ObamaCare (which, admittedly was poor, but then was also fixed). Jared has had over a year to fix the VA. Great job, Jared! Maybe spending more time on veterans problems (you know the guys who sacrificed for this country) and less time on setting up back collusion channels to Russia or giving green cards to Chinese contributors to your 666 problem would produce real help for veterans.