Former Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., told members of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee on Tuesday that he was committed to looking at the Oracle Cerner software’s beleaguered deployment with fresh eyes and that “there's no reason in the world we cannot get this done.”
During Trump’s first term, VA contracted with Cerner — which was subsequently acquired by Oracle in 2022 — to modernize its legacy EHR system and make it interoperable with the Department of Defense’s new EHR system that is also from Oracle Cerner.
VA first rolled out the new software in 2020 at the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, but since then the EHR system’s implementation has been bogged down by technical issues, cost overruns and patient safety concerns.
The department paused deployments of the EHR system in April 2023 to address the range of problems affecting the five facilities where the new software had been deployed, although the department and DOD subsequently worked to implement the system at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, Illinois, last March.
The Biden administration announced in December that VA was “beginning early-stage planning” to deploy the new EHR system at four of its Michigan-based medical facilities in mid-2026, a move that would officially take the department out of its “reset” period.
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