By Hannah Nelson
May 22, 2023 – A projected $35 million shortfall deficit at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center caused largely by the agency’s flawed EHR system is forcing the Spokane hospital to reduce its staff, according…
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By Hannah Nelson
May 19, 2023 – After the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced a renegotiated EHR contract with Oracle Cerner earlier this week, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member of the VA committee,…
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The VA and Oracle Cerner complete their scheduled five-year contract renegotiation.
The VA’s next five-year renewal period will be changed to five, one-year terms.
The revised contract will also include stiffer financial penalties…
By Hannah Nelson
May 17, 2023 – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has renegotiated its $10 billion EHR contract with Oracle Cerner to include stronger performance metrics and larger financial penalties, according to reporting from…
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has arrived at a new electronic health record deal with Oracle, following five years marked by rollout challenges and performance problems that have impacted veterans’ care – resulting in reported harm…
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By Hannah Nelson
May 17, 2023 – Clinician EHR documentation time went down slightly following changes to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) coding requirements, according to a research letter…
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by Implementations/Deployments 05/11/2023 Leave a CommentWhat You Should Know:A group of 21 Ontario-based hospitals and facilities launches Ontario eHub Health Information Exchange (HIE) powered by Oracle Health. The Ontario eHub can help these healthcare organizations…
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What You Should Know:Get Well, a global leader in digital patient engagement, today announced it has expanded its industry-leading digital patient engagement portfolio to include new social determinants of health (SDOH) screening solutions.The new solution…
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By Hannah Nelson
May 10, 2023 – House legislators pressed Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials and Oracle executives during a hearing Tuesday regarding problems with the pharmacy features of the agency’s new Oracle Cerner EHR…
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Hackers breach the systems of NextGen Healthcare and access the information of one million patients, according to a filed breach report.
The company says that its cloud-based NextGen Office EHR/PM was accessed using…
