A small architecture firm gets a contract to upgrade a VA hospital's electronic health records

A small architecture and engineering firm won a contract to upgrade the electronic health records infrastructure at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Canandaigua, NY. This means the hospital is moving forward with modernizing how it manages patient information.

This contract is a small piece of a much larger, ongoing effort by the Department of Veterans Affairs to modernize its entire electronic health record system. The VA has been working on this for years, facing significant challenges and cost overruns. Each individual contract, even for infrastructure upgrades, represents a step in that long and difficult process.