“A federal appeals court on Wednesday tossed CliniComp’s challenge that the Veterans Affairs Department improperly awarded its $10 billion electronic health record contract to Cerner Corp. by skipping an open, competitive bidding process.”
“The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed an earlier rejection of CliniComp’s lawsuit. The company argued last year that it should have been considered to modernize the VA’s VistA health records system, as it was the incumbent EHR contractor. CliniComp claimed it was…” Read more here.
Source: CliniComp loses VA-Cerner EHR contract appeal – By Susannah Luthi, September 19, 2018. Modern Healthcare.