Lawmaker: Don’t Let “Rudderless Leadership” Cripple VA Health Record Overhaul

NextGov: One lawmaker is demanding answers from the Veterans Affairs Department after two officials leading the agency’s multibillion-dollar electronic health record overhaul resigned last week.

“It would be a tragedy for the program to be undermined by personality conflicts and bureaucratic power struggles before it even begins in earnest,” Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., said Friday in a letter to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie. Banks chairs the House subcommittee charged with overseeing the IT overhaul.

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