VA to Pause, Revamp Oracle-Cerner Health Records Project (1)

Friday’s “reset” of the VA’s multibillion-dollar program to improve its health records systems will disrupt the program and likely the vendor, software giant Oracle.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is stopping plans for rollouts to new sites of its Electronic Health Records Modernization program while it attempts to fix issues previously recognized at the five locations that currently have the software, according to the VA Friday.

The decision aligns with a push from House Veterans Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.) in a bill (H.R. 592) that would require the VA to stop putting EHRM ...