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Fed Scoop | Backlog of VA medical records awaiting digitization is 5 miles tall
Across the country at Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities, there’s a massive backlog of documents waiting to be scanned and digitized that, if stacked, would stand more than 5 miles tall.
According to a new inspector general’s report, “[s]ignificant medical documentation backlogs have occurred VHA-wide in part because VA medical facility staff did not scan documentation and enter electronic medical records into patients’ EHRs in a timely manner.” The result is a “backlog of paper documentation that measured approximately 5.15 miles high and contained at least 597,000 individual electronic document files dating back to October 2016.” |
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