“The U.S. Coast Guard will begin implementing an electronic health record system from Cerner Corp. in the next quarter, the EHR vendor shared on its third-quarter earnings call with investment analysts.”
“The Coast Guard represents just one of Cerner’s government contracts, alongside the vendor’s EHR deals with the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments.”
“The Coast Guard in April 2018 unveiled plans to move to Cerner’s EHR and join the Defense Department in the MHS Genesis project, an EHR that Cerner is developing for the Military Health System to use systemwide.”
“The Coast Guard had been using paper records since ending its $14 million EHR implementation with Epic Systems Corp. in 2016…” Read the full article here.
Source: Coast Guard to kick off Cerner EHR – By Jessica Kim Cohen, October 25, 2019. Modern Healthcare.
