The Department of Veterans Affairs wants House appropriators to designate $782 million of Fiscal Year 2018 funding to kick start the VA’s planned acquisition of a Cerner electronic health record system that will serve as a single common EHR with the Department of Defense.
Although the VA has not completed negotiations with Cerner for the sole-source contract award, which is expected by the end of the month, VA Secretary David Shulkin, MD, told lawmakers on Wednesday that the agency plans to align the deployment and implementation of the EHR with the rollout of DoD’s own system.
