U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte) welcomed U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins back to Michigan on Thursday as the pair visited the Lansing VA’s community-based outpatient clinic and the VFW National Home in Eaton Rapids.
Speaking with reporters after a roundtable meeting with veterans discussing efforts to improve the department’s services, Collins touted the department’s move to transition to an electronic health record system, noting Michigan had led the charge by deploying the system at four hospitals earlier this year.
“One of the things that the secretary has been very adamant about, that I think has been a good thing, is having a standardized framework within the VA,” Barrett said. “Some of that is from the electronic health record system. There was a lot of variation between different VA facilities, different VA regions.”…