[{"innerBlocks":[],"name":"core\/freeform","postId":486,"blockType":{"name":"core\/freeform","keywords":[],"attributes":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"providesContext":[],"usesContext":[],"selectors":[],"supports":{"className":false,"customClassName":false,"reusable":false},"styles":[],"variations":[],"apiVersion":3,"title":"Classic","description":"Use the classic WordPress editor.","category":"text"},"originalContent":"The Department of Veterans Affairs wants to ensure that VA personnel are properly trained to support the agency\u2019s 10-year Electronic Health Record Modernization initiative.Under the newly launched VA Innovative Technology Advancement Lab (VITAL) training program, the agency has selected 76 initial trainees for advanced training; they will support continuous performance improvement and seek to address real-world healthcare challenges. As the decade-long deployment continues, participants will be added, according to the VA.For the first cohort of VITAL, 76 trainees were selected from among more than 40 point-of-care clinical and support roles at the Electronic Health Record Modernization\u2019s initial operating capabilities sites, including Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle and Tacoma, and other Veterans Integrated Service Network facilities in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington state.\u201cVITAL was designed to increase EHRM adoption and speed-to-value, promote standardization and optimize the use of advanced analytics,\u201d according to the agency. \u201cThe VITAL program consists of four, three-day, in-person sessions across 12 to 18 months, monthly virtual checkpoints and a core capstone project chosen by participants.\u201dVITAL\u2019s capstone projects are \u201cdesigned to tackle real-world problems encountered at the participants\u2019 facilities\u201d and \u201callow them to gain confidence and competence in optimizing EHRM solutions and tools while solving actual problems today and proactively attacking future ones,\u201d contends the agency.\u201cThe VA established VITAL to specially train staff who can identify possible challenges and work across the entire VA organization to make improvements,\u201d said VA Secretary Robert Wilkie in a written statement. \u201cVITAL is an important component in our larger training strategy, which will help ensure efficient and timely user adoption of the modernized EHR system.\u201d

The VA developed the VITAL training curriculum with Cerner, which last year was awarded a $10 billion contract to replace the agency\u2019s legacy Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) with a commercial-off-the-shelf EHR currently being deployed by the Department of Defense.Although VITAL is unique to VA, the agency says the training program was developed from lessons learned from DoD\u2019s initial rollout of MHS GENESIS. Both the DoD and VA plan to implement a common Cerner Millennium EHR system.\u201cObservation of DoD\u2019s GENESIS program has prompted VA to identify key clinical and frontline staff who require advanced training to ensure smooth EHRM implementation, enhance functionality and support continuous performance improvement,\u201d according to the agency. \u201cExamples of other lessons learned from GENESIS include the importance of excusing training participants from clinical responsibilities during training sessions and related responsibilities.\u201dMHS GENESIS was first launched in 2017 at military medical facilities in the Pacific Northwest. However, the initial rollout of the Cerner Millennium platform to pilot sites was not without some major challenges.The system was deemed \u201cneither operationally effective nor operationally suitable,\u201d according to a 2018 report from DoD\u2019s director of operational test and evaluation, which was based on an assessment of three of four pilot sites in Washington state.However, DoD contends that after \u201crigorous testing, training and change management efforts during its rollout\u201d\u2014including enhanced training\u2014it is now \u201cconfident all issues have been rectified."","saveContent":"The Department of Veterans Affairs wants to ensure that VA personnel are properly trained to support the agency\u2019s 10-year Electronic Health Record Modernization initiative.Under the newly launched VA Innovative Technology Advancement Lab (VITAL) training program, the agency has selected 76 initial trainees for advanced training; they will support continuous performance improvement and seek to address real-world healthcare challenges. As the decade-long deployment continues, participants will be added, according to the VA.For the first cohort of VITAL, 76 trainees were selected from among more than 40 point-of-care clinical and support roles at the Electronic Health Record Modernization\u2019s initial operating capabilities sites, including Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle and Tacoma, and other Veterans Integrated Service Network facilities in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington state.\u201cVITAL was designed to increase EHRM adoption and speed-to-value, promote standardization and optimize the use of advanced analytics,\u201d according to the agency. \u201cThe VITAL program consists of four, three-day, in-person sessions across 12 to 18 months, monthly virtual checkpoints and a core capstone project chosen by participants.\u201dVITAL\u2019s capstone projects are \u201cdesigned to tackle real-world problems encountered at the participants\u2019 facilities\u201d and \u201callow them to gain confidence and competence in optimizing EHRM solutions and tools while solving actual problems today and proactively attacking future ones,\u201d contends the agency.\u201cThe VA established VITAL to specially train staff who can identify possible challenges and work across the entire VA organization to make improvements,\u201d said VA Secretary Robert Wilkie in a written statement. \u201cVITAL is an important component in our larger training strategy, which will help ensure efficient and timely user adoption of the modernized EHR system.\u201d

VA starts training program for new Cerner EHR system

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