The Department of Veterans Affairs will spend $10 billion over 10 years to implement a new Cerner electronic health record to replace its decades-old legacy system.
By comparison, the Department of Defense in 2015 awarded a $4.3 billion contract to a Leidos-led team to modernize its EHR with Cerner’s Millennium—the same system that the VA is procuring. However, the VA’s healthcare system is about three times the size of DoD’s, has 2.5 times more facilities, 3.7 times more interfaces and triple the number of licensed users.
