“The VA is requesting Congress to reprogram almost $800 million ($782 million) from its current budget to get started on the work to replace its aging homegrown EHR system with the Cerner EHR in order to achieve cost savings, and also avoid a longer implementation. Essentially, Shulkin said VA needed the funding by the end of the calendar year to achieve efficiencies to align closely with the DoD’s current multi-billion-dollar Cerner implementation.” Read Full article here
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