The Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center has switched to a new electronic health record system, as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs completed its final health-record deployments of 2026 at Cleveland and Anchorage, Alaska, according to the VA’s Oct. 26 announcement reported by Becker’s Hospital Review. The Oracle Health system went live Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Cleveland medical center, the Alaska VA Healthcare System and 16 standalone clinics tied to those centers across Ohio and Alaska.
The two go-lives moved more than 163,000 veterans and 7,800 facility staff onto the new system, the VA said in its announcement, as reported by Nextgov/FCW. Cleveland’s rollout makes it the 13th VA hospital to adopt the record in 2026, completing the department’s deployment goal for the year under what the VA calls an accelerated schedule.
The new record is designed to follow a veteran across the system. Healthcare IT News reported that VA officials say the system makes it easier to transfer military health records among the VA and other federal partners and to integrate information from private-sector providers, so care stays consistent when a veteran changes facilities or needs emergency treatment elsewhere. Nationwide, more than 780,000 veterans and 42,000 VA clinicians and staff now use the system, Becker’s reported…