VA Cerner Problems From Business Insider Oracle in June purchased Cerner, a medical-records giant, for about $28 billion. The US Department of Veterans Affairs tapped Cerner in 2018 to overhaul its information systems. Long-standing issues with the technology and the cost of the project just became Oracle’s problem. Excerpt Before 2018, the VA was identifying some of the same… Read More: The VA Cerner Situation – Oracles First Test »
Cerner EHR News From Becker Oracle is considering cost cuts that could mean layoffs in August, according to tech publisher The Information. An unnamed source with knowledge of the situation told the publication Oracle has considered eliminating thousands of jobs, primarily in the U.S. and Europe, as part of $1 billion cost reduction efforts. The layoffs are being… Read More: Oracle ponders $1B cost reductions »
VA EHR Update – Cerner EHR 7/12 — An article from Fierce laying out several aspects of VA. The bottom line is it is going to cost twice as much as originally estimated. Not unlike the VA complex here in Denver. Update from HISTalk See report VA OIG looks at training deficiencies in the VA’s first Cerner rollout at Mann-Grandstaff… Read More: VA EHR – Cerner Problems Reported — Now Paused »
Announcement on FierceHealthcare Oct 26, 2020 — The Department of Veterans Affairs’ achieved a major milestone Saturday in its decadeslong, multibillion-dollar effort to upgrade its aging health IT systems. Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, went live with a new Cerner EHR system this weekend, the first site as part of VA’s massive medical records project. It marks… Read More: VA medical center live on Cerner EHR »
VA EHR Overhaul As reported by FierceHealthcare Aug2020 and another POV from Politico. There is more background from EHR Intelligence. GovCon posted the SAM notice on Cerner booking an order (link is below). We could not locate the information that Politico got from the VA so at this point it is everybody saying it is back on track,… Read More: VA EHR Overhaul Back On Schedule »
From Beckers Health IT — Jackie Drees – Thursday, July 30th, 2020 Print | Email Nacogdoches (Texas) Memorial Hospital terminated a $20 million contract with Cerner this week, opting to instead remain using its current Cerner EHR rather than transitioning to the vendor’s Community Works platform. The hospital had delayed finishing the new Cerner EHR system several times, most recently until this year… Read More: EHR – Texas Memorial Terminates Cerner EHR »
EHR Market Share News KLAS full Reference article on Becker May 2020 Epic and Cerner maintained the largest shares of the EHR market for acute care hospitals in 2019. However, Cerner experienced a net decrease in market share for the first time since 2010, according to a recent KLAS Research report. For its “U.S. Hospital EMR Market Share 2020”… Read More: Cerner & Epic Market Dominate EHR Market »
From Modern Healthcare Apr2020 The Veterans Affairs Department has paused the rollout of its multibillion-dollar electronic health record project on account of the novel coronavirus, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie wrote in a letter to Congress on Friday. “The worldwide pandemic created by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has shifted the overall priorities of the Department of Veterans Affairs,” he… Read More: COVID-19 Delays VA Cerner EHR Project »
Hospitals Switching To Epic From Becker Hospital Review Feb 2020 — Seems to be a contagion going around as far as Cerner EHR implementations go. We saw week before AdventHealth switching horses and this last week we see Atrium Health deciding to “transition” to Epic EHR. Epic and Cerner dominate the EHR marketplace, with both companies combined accounting… Read More: Another Cerner Hospital Decides to Switch to Epic »
Epic EHR Replaced Cerner From Beckers Hospital Review Feb 2020 Epic and Cerner dominate the EHR marketplace, with both companies combined accounting for more than 50 percent of the acute care hospital market share, according to KLAS. In 2018, Epic had 28 percent of the market while Cerner had 26 percent. It appears though that Epic has increased… Read More: Cerner Replaced with Epic in the past 5 years »