{"id":20392,"date":"2022-10-21T10:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20392"},"modified":"2022-10-21T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:05:59","slug":"blind-to-problems-how-vas-electronic-record-system-shuts-out-visually-impaired-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20392","title":{"rendered":"Blind to Problems: How VA\u2019s Electronic Record System Shuts Out Visually Impaired Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Darius Tahir for Kaiser Health News dated October 20, 2022))<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Sheffield, a nurse practitioner at a\u00a0Veterans Affairs clinic in Eugene, Oregon, had a problem. Her patients \u2014 mostly in their 70s and beyond \u2014 couldn\u2019t read computer screens. It\u2019s not an unusual problem for older people, which is why you might think\u00a0Oracle Cerner, the developers of the agency\u2019s new digital health record system, would have anticipated it.  <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/va-electronic-record-system-blind-visually-impaired\/\">here&#8230;<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Darius Tahir for Kaiser Health News dated October 20, 2022)) Sarah Sheffield, a nurse practitioner at a\u00a0Veterans Affairs clinic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,14,7],"tags":[69,94,87],"class_list":["post-20392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology","category-veterans-benefits","tag-medical-technology","tag-older-adults","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20393,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20392\/revisions\/20393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}