VA Oracle Cerner EHR hasn’t had an outage in 6 months

Becker's Healthcare November 20, 2023
Giles Bruce

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Oracle Cerner EHR hasn’t had a complete outage in more than six months but has to make improvements before officials are fully comfortable rolling it out, Federal News Network reported.

The EHR vendor still has to meet a federal requirement that it run incident-free 95% of the time, according to the Nov. 15 story. The VA’s yearslong implementation of the EHR has been plagued with problems, with the agency spending nearly $4 billion to deploy it at just five small and medium-sized medical centers.

Kurt DelBene, the VA’s CIO and assistant secretary for IT, told a House committee part of the issue has been all the fixes made to the EHR, the news outlet...

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