Veterans Affairs officials will pick up their electronic health record overhaul effort with four new sites in Michigan in mid-2026, restarting the controversial program roughly three years after it was halted because of concerns over patient safety.
Department leaders said they are confident that improvements made to the system and to VA processes will produce a better result this time, and said the decision to move ahead needed to be made now to get infrastructure in place to proceed with the work over the next year.
“We said that we were going to take the time that we needed to get things right, to get to a point where we were confident that it was time to restart preparing for deployment,” said Dr. Neil Evans, acting program executive director of VA’s EHRM Integration Office . “We spent a little over a year and a half focused on that. We’re seeing positive outcomes from that effort.
“Now we’re talking about getting restarted with planning the next deployments.”
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