VA to Update EHR Medical Scheduling Component

The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) hopes to replace the medical scheduling package (MSP) in its EHR system--and also to avoid the mistakes it made the last time it attempted to do so. The organization is actively soliciting advice from industry, academia and others before going forward, according to a request for information (RFI) published December 21.

The MSP is an essential component of the VA's Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) EHR system--and the current MSP is more than 25 years old, highly inefficient and no longer supports the linkages that VistA needs...