The Federal Electronic Health Record (EHR) received critical updates this month enabling the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care teams to make more informed decisions that improve Veteran care.

The Individual Longitudinal Exposure Record (ILER), which was created by VA and the Department of War (DOW), provides an electronic record of each service member’s occupational and environmental health exposures over the course of their career.

Now available at the 10 Federal EHR live sites, VA teams can use ILER data to inform clinical decisions in exposure-related care and assess disability claims, improving accuracy and processing time of claims and benefits determinations.

“Having this important Veteran exposure information available directly in the Federal EHR is a significant improvement from having to search standalone applications,” said VA Deputy Secretary Paul Lawrence, Ph.D. “By reducing the need to switch between applications and giving our staff members more efficient access to this data, they can spend more time caring for Veterans.”

Six other capability and interface updates

In addition to the ILER enhancement this month, there was a series of other planned upgrades across the Federal EHR, including six capability and interface updates that were successfully added to further improve functionality and usability of the system.

The Federal EHR is now live at 10 VA Medical Centers and 55 VA clinics, serving more than 408,000 Veterans. Under VA’s accelerated schedule, the following additional Federal EHR deployments will take place this year:

June 6, 2026:

  • Chillicothe VA Medical Center (Chillicothe, Ohio)
  • Cincinnati VA Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio)
  • Cincinnati VA Medical Center-Fort Thomas (Ft. Thomas, Ky.)
  • Dayton VA Medical Center (Dayton, Ohio)

August 2026:

  • Fort Wayne VAMC (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
  • Marion VAMC (Marion, Ind.)
  • Richard L. Roudebush VAMC (Indianapolis, Ind.)

October 2026:

  • Alaska VA Healthcare System (Anchorage, Alaska)
  • Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC (Cleveland, Ohio)

For more information about the EHRM program and the Federal EHR, visit the EHRM website.

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  1. Julia P June 9, 2026 at 09:39 - Reply

    This new Electronic Health Record system is horrible! Lab results cannot be read by patients. We get email notifications saying we have new Secure Messages, new records, new reports but when we log in, there’s nothing new showing up.
    If you Google “VA, Cerner Oracle and black hole” you will see how hundreds of veterans DIED because of the new system! You will will see how thousands of veterans records disappeared. This is not acceptable.

  2. Barbara Lynd May 30, 2026 at 18:27 - Reply

    My Brother, John Bunting III, is now in hospice care. He was once enrolled in the medical program, but we brought him home and all ended. Now we need assistance to keep him in this hospices program.
    When I was working to get him coverage initially, it took me 4 yearsand numerous calls etc.
    He was a Marine, he served his time.
    I hate to say this- but I do not have 4 years to get his coverage, he is in Hispice now.

    Please respond,
    Barbara Lynd, sister of John Bunting

  3. Gunny G USMC ret May 28, 2026 at 14:20 - Reply

    Great until it gets hacked and they get our SSN and our IDENTITIES.
    Sorry if I don’t have fair in the security of the system.

  4. Julia Peterson May 26, 2026 at 20:00 - Reply

    The new EHR is absolutely horrible! MyHealthEvet can’t show or load older records, appointments, labs, nor care summaries!
    When you try to see what your lab results are and click on the tests, no results are actually listed!!!
    I’ve had lab tests that were supposed to be sent out to another facility come back with results in less than 10 minutes from the time my blood was drawn! I showed it to the lab tech, who called the main lab to confirm it being sent out… it was still in the VA building!
    There are so many “hiding spots” MSA’s have difficulty checking patients in & scheduling.
    I’ve had consults “disappear” with this new EHR.
    We cannot download radiology images for outside providers anymore .
    How is that a better EHR?
    Please get Cerner/ Oracle back to the VA’s to fix their problems and complications.

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