“Senior officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs confirmed at a House hearing that the implementation of the Cerner electronic health record system and the phase-out of the homegrown Vista system would cost $10 billion and take 10 years.”
“John Windom, the retired Navy captain who led the Defense health record procurement and now heads the VA’s effort, tried to put the numbers in context. The VA is three times larger than the Department of Defense, when looking at number of facilities, patient population and the number of medical professional. VA has more than 100 legacy interfaces, Windom explained, while DOD only required the migration of data from 25 to 27 such applications… the “complexity is four times larger” than what the DOD faces in its implementation.”
“Windom cautioned, however, that Vista is going to be around for a while as the Cerner system is put in place…”
Source: Why VA’s Cerner deal will cost $10 billion – By Adam Mazmanian, December 07, 2017, FCW. Read the full article here.
