Modernizing a National Electronic Health Record: a Learning Health Care System Approach.

Consequently, in 2017 VA announced the Department would transition from VistA/CPRS to a commercial off-the-shelf EHR platform, selecting the same system DoD had earlier competitively selected for its 490 health care facilities in 2015. Together, these two recurring components of quality improvement - accountability and transparency - have been foundational to VA's history as a learning health care system.[1] Another chapter in that history, as noted by several papers, has been the evolution of the VA research program to promote actionable inquiry on ongoing changes in VA healthcare. [Extracted from the article]