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HRD-77-2 1 (1976-10-12)

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                  UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                          WASHINGTON. D.C.

MlA. Nin
   =mwu                                           OCT 12 1976
     B-133044

     The Honorable Rictard . Roudebush
     Administrator of Veterans Affairs

     Dear 4r. Roudebush:

          We reviewed the Veterans Administratlon's (VA's) auto-
     mated clinical laboratory reporting system to determine
     whether it has helped to improve patient care.

          The clinical reporting system Is basically a small com-
     puter system derigned to help diagnose and treat patients by
     providing physicians prompt and accurate test reports. It

          -maintains patients' administrative records,

          -permits patient test reLults to be transmitted from
            hospital laboratories to patient wards for use by
            attending physicians,

          --produces administrative reports, and
          -generates reports shoving cumulative patient tests
            to help physicians detect trends in patient'. '.ondi-,
            ticns.                  

          Hcwever, the system has not, as anticipated, improved
     the timeliness and accuracy of patient tests or patient
     administrative reports.

          VA has clinical reporting systems at five VA hospitals
     in Birmingham, Alabamay Hines, Illinois; Houston, Texas;
     and Los Angeles (Wadsworth) and Long Beach, California.
     VA spent about $6.5 million from July 1, 1972, to February 1,
     1976, to operate the systems, and it expects to spend $4 mil-
     lion more by December 1977.


HRD-77-2

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