“House appropriators on Thursday approved the Fiscal Year 2020 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies bill, including $1.6 billion for the VA’s new Cerner electronic health record system…”
“Of the $1.6 billion appropriated to continue implementation of the Cerner system, the legislation provides $1,106,500,000 for the electronic health record contract, $161,800,000 for program management and $334,700,000 for infrastructure support…”
“The committee urged the VA to “explore and invest in modern, software-defined networking and hybrid cloud technologies to ensure that its EHR modernization network and IT infrastructure will effectively support the Cerner implementation and its subsequent use…” Read the full article here.
Source: House committee appropriates $1.6B for VA EHR in FY 2020 – By Greg Slabodkin, May 10, 2019. HealthData Management.
