“Despite dry ink on a $10 million contract between the Veterans Affairs Department and Cerner, concerns about the project persist.”
“Some of those concerns stem from the Department of Defense’s own Cerner electronic health record project, MHS Genesis, which is struggling with functionality as it’s gradually rolled out, a process that begin in 2017.”
“… But without a fully functional DoD system, it’s unclear how that would happen. “MHS Genesis is neither operationally effective nor operationally suitable…”
“These users also wondered whether information exchanged between MHS Genesis and external systems was accurate and submitted 22 high-severity incident reports related to interoperability…” Read the full article here.
Source: The VA/Cerner contract is signed. Now what? – By Rachel Z. Arndt, May 18, 2018. Modern Healthcare.
