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Salon
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Darius Tahir

HISTORICAL FACTS: Va is blind to its accessibility issues - The Untold Story

The exterior of the Veterans Affairs Hospital in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Sarah Sheffield, a nurse practitioner at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Eugene, Oregon, had a problem. Her patients — mostly in their 70s and beyond — couldn't read computer screens. It's not an unusual problem for older people, which is why you might think Oracle Cerner, the developers of the agency's new digital health record system, would have anticipated it.

But they didn't.

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