Becker's Healthcare March 28, 2023
Naomi Diaz

House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chair Mike Bost, R-Ill., said Congress must provide increased oversight of the VA’s Oracle Cerner EHR rollout, or the program will be terminated, NextGov reported March 27.

Mr. Bost placed much of the blame for the troubled VA EHR modernization program on Oracle Cerner stating, “it’s Cerner and Oracle that need to get their act together.”

“VA simply has to make sure that, at the place where they’re going to roll it out, the standards are met,” Mr. Bost told the publication. “And the most important standard is that the operator and manager and overseer of the particular VA [medical facility] where it is going to roll out is comfortable moving forward with changing a...

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