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[Veterans' Administration Actions taken in Response to GAO
Report on the Agency's Automated Clinical Lab System].
HRD-77-122; B-133044. Jujy 12, 1977. 5 pp.
Report to Sen. Alan Cranston, Chairman, Senate Committee on
Veterans' Affairs; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issu( Area: Health Programs (1200); Health Programs: Federal
, vernment Control of Costs Through Direct Delivery Programs
(1.16) ;Automatic Data Processing (100).
Contact: Husan Resources Div.
Budget -ixnction: Health: Health Care Services (551); Veterans
Benefits and Services: Veterans Education, Training, and
Rehabilitation (702) .
Organization Concerned: Veterans Administration.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Veterans' Affairs;
Senate Committee on Veterans' Aff&irs.
The Veterans' Administration's (VA's) automated
clinical laboratory is basically a small computer system
designed to provide physicians with prompt and accurate test
results and the hospitals with accurate administrative reports.
A GAO study concluded that the 5ystem had not greatly improved
the timeliness and accuracy of 1he test results nor the accuracy
of the administrative reports. GAO further concluded that the
system was no better than the manual system that it had
replaced. It was recommended that the further development of the
system be terminated until its reliability and capability could
be evaluated and that the computer's role in hospital laboratory
and administrative operations be studied. Findings/Conclusions:
The VA has made several studies of the deficiencies of the
clinical laboratory reporting system noted earlier, but the
actions taken by the VA were not responsive to the GAO report.
The response is basically concerned with the issue of whether
the new system it plans--the Honeywell H-716--will be cost
beneficial. The VA has not addressed the main problems
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