The VA has been trying to replace its 1990s EHR for nearly a decade. Four attempts. $16 billion spent. 96% of its hospitals still on the old system.
In this article, as I rotate through a VA hospital for the last time, I'm breaking down why the most powerful healthcare system in the country can't seem to modernize the one tool its clinicians use every single day—and what it means now that AI is changing everything.
