Becker's Healthcare February 13, 2023
Ken Glueck, executive vice president of Oracle, urged Congress to continue to support the Cerner EHR rollout at the Department of Veterans Affairs after legislators proposed two bills aimed at scrapping the entire project.
Mr. Glueck wrote in a Feb. 10 Oracle blog post that scrapping the Cerner rollout, which has been ongoing since October 2020, would take healthcare for veterans backwards, as the move would cause the department to revert back to its legacy VA EHR system.
“The point of a modern EHR is so that interacting with your health record is as easy as interacting with a Starbucks Barista,” Mr. Glueck wrote.
Mr. Glueck also pointed out that the bills, H.R. 608 and H.R. 592,...
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