Becker's Healthcare May 10, 2021
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have been working to launch Cerner’s EHR system for both active duty and veteran members.
A timeline of the DOD’s and VA’s EHR efforts:
May 2018: The VA finalized a contract with Cerner, awarding the EHR vendor $10 billion over the next 10 years to put the VA on the same records system as the U.S. Defense Department.
February 2019: A member of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee expressed frustration over the cost and length of the VA’s $16 billion deal with Cerner to put the VA on the same records system as the Defense Department during a hearing, but conceded he was for the first time encouraged by...
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