EHR Intelligence February 7, 2023
Ken Glueck, EVP of Oracle, noted that while the VA EHRM program has been far but perfect, the company has made substantial progress in improving system performance.
After legislators proposed a bill to scrap the VA Electronic Health Record Modernization EHRM project last week, a top Oracle executive called on Congress to continue to support the effort in a blog post.
Ken Glueck, executive vice president of Oracle, argued that reverting to the legacy VA EHR, Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), would take healthcare for veterans backward.
“VistA cannot be made better; it will just be made older, less secure, and more expensive to operate,” Glueck wrote. “Worse, it will deny our veterans the many benefits modern...