#cost-overrun

#cost-overrun

Even as the Department of Veterans Affairs prepares to resume go-lives of its new Oracle Health electronic health record system in 117 days, House lawmakers remain concerned about the modernization project's total cost and the agency's readiness for simultaneous deployments at medical facilities in the coming months. VA paused most rollouts of the new software in April 2023 to rectify technical issues, patient safety concerns and usability challenges at the sites where the system has been deployed.

Department says costs, which have reached €35.2m, had been based on outdated estimates

I just pray that it brings all the resolution and all the opportunity to move on that he was hoping, and I know that it will be a relief for him and for Hazel, and that it will refresh a degree of sadness as well, because it's occupied so much of their lives, and changed their lives in so many ways.

The council's financial management has been unable to file auditable accounts since it replaced an aging - but functioning - SAP system with new cloud-based software from Oracle. Although the council had expected to implement the system out-of-the-box, it made customized modifications including the introduction of the BRS, which failed to function as planned. The council was declared effectively bankrupt in September 2023, because of the ERP disaster and outstanding equal pay claims.