Healthcare IT News March 21, 2025
While the department says the contracts are “non-mission-critical or duplicative,” several of those canceled in March were for veteran-owned businesses that were focused on the safety and integrity of the ongoing electronic health record rollout.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs eliminated several electronic health record modernization contracts amid a larger cutback earlier this month. Some canceled work under the Veterans Health Administration’s Integrated Healthcare Transformation program could directly affect system improvements that ensure patient safety.
Veteran-owned businesses
The VHA initially received multiple bids for the potential 10-year, $1 billion transformation support contract in 2020 – and selected companies such as Aptive HTG, HRS Consulting, RB Management Consultants, Sierra7, Titan Alpha and Trilogy Federal to work on the project.
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