“…Now comes the VA’s difficult implementation of the Cerner system, which is expected to take 10 years. The deal says Cerner will get no more than $10 billion for its trouble, but many experts expect at least another $5 billion to be spent on all the change management that will go into the deal.”
“We decided to ask some experts for their advice on how the VA should proceed to make this enterprise successful. Here are some of their responses (more in Tuesday morning’s edition!):”
“David Shulkin, former VA secretary: Get VA clinical leadership buy-in. Form a veteran advisory committee…”
“Scott Blackburn, former VA chief information officer: Get the right executive leadership in place and make those people truly accountable. Who on the secretary’s team…”
“Peter Levin, CEO, Amida Technology Solutions, former VA chief technology officer: We’ll lose years of time and billions of dollars – never mind put patients at risk – if we don’t have measurable, auditable, reliable, and secure clinical data exchange. If you get the data…” Read the full newsletter here.
Source: Experts chime in on VA’s next steps for Cerner deal – By Arthur Allen, May 21, 2018. POLITICO Morning eHealth.
