Category Archives: Cerner EHR

In 2018, Cerner secured a potential $10B contract to support EHR deployment efforts aimed to simplify the exchange of medical records between the VA, Department of Defense and other community health care providers.

For the VA, the Cerner EHR will replace the approximately 130 operational instances of VistA currently in use across the department. While the initial EHR contract signed with Cerner was for $10 billion, the VA has pushed the estimated 10-year cost for implementing the system past $16 billion.

In a press release late last week, the VA announced a revised schedule with updated timelines for deployments.

VA – Wilkie on Byrne Departure

From FedScoop The removal of Deputy Secretary James Byrne “will not impact at all” the massive migration project at the VA, according to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie The project is a massive migration of the electronic health records of millions of veterans from the outdated Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) platform to a cloud-based commercial Cerner… Read More »