Healthcare IT News April 26, 2023
Andrea Fox

While legislators offer proposals to recalibrate the development and reign in the deployment and oversight of the VA’s Oracle Cerner electronic health records, other leaders want to scrap the system altogether.

On Monday, Rep. Mike Takano, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and the committee’s Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., introduced companion legislation to the EHR Program RESET Act of 2023 offered by Senators Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on March 30.

They have introduced H.R. 2809 – which follows a series of related House bills to curtail or terminate the VA’s beleaguered electronic health records modernization effort in partnership with Oracle Cerner – to begin negotiations between the Congressional chambers to...

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