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Last weekend, the Federal EHR went live at four sites in Michigan (Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit, and Saginaw) bringing the Federal EHR to over 10,000 new users and over 200,000 Veterans. The Michigan Go-Live is the largest simultaneous deployment of the Federal EHR for VA and includes some of the biggest and highest-complexity VA medical centers to transition to the new EHR.
Technical cutover and data migrations finished on or ahead of schedule on Saturday morning, so all sites were ready as planned for regular weekend operations on Saturday and for a full day of patient care on Monday.
As part of this go-live we completed 449 interface cutovers, including 12 new interfaces, all on schedule. We migrated 1.22 million active prescriptions during cutover with a success rate exceeding 99.5%. Over 25,000 total prescriptions were sent to CMOP on day one across six outpatient pharmacies. Eighty research studies have been deployed as of April 16.
While a transition of this magnitude is challenging, with each day, adoption continues to increase. The super user model and the Pay-It-Forward program are consistently highlighted by staff as key to making this go-live successful.
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 VA leadership gather at the VA Detroit Healthcare System EHRM Go-Live Celebration held on April 10, 2026. From left: Dr. Neil Evans, acting program executive director, EHRM-IO; Paul R. Lawrence, Ph.D., Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Jill Dietrich-Mellon, interim network director, Veterans Integrated Service Network 10; and Michelle Martin, interim medical center director, John D. Dingell VA Medical Center.
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