VA Still Recovering from Bug?

By Bob Brewin,
Editor at Large

| March 11, 2010

I'm picking up strong signals that the Veterans Affairs Department has yet to <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100304_9977.php>fix the bug in its electronic health data exchange</a> with the Defense Department and may not until next week rather than on March 9 as predicted.

What's Brewin

I'm picking up strong signals that the Veterans Affairs Department has yet to fix the bug in its electronic health data exchange with the Defense Department and may not until next week rather than on March 9 as predicted.

The bug, which resulted in a VA doctor accessing erroneous patient information -- a prescription for an erectile dysfunction drug was in a record of a female patient -- evidently is taking longer to fix than originally anticipated.

VA promises to fill me in on March 15.

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I'm picking up strong signals that the Veterans Affairs Department has yet to <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100304_9977.php>fix the bug in its electronic health data exchange</a> with the Defense Department and may not until next week rather than on March 9 as predicted.