The Department of Veteran Affairs has recorded almost 500 major incidents with its new Oracle Cerner electronic health records system and at least 45 days of downtime within the system since it was ...
Sarah Sheffield, a nurse practitioner at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Eugene, Oregon, had a problem. Her patients — mostly in their 70s and beyond — couldn’t read computer screens. It’s not an unusual ...
The list of criticisms of the new Veterans Affairs (VA) electronic health record system, Oracle Cerner, is long. Thousands of doctors’ orders went missing, putting patient safety at risk. Its downtime ...
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Tuesday grilled officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs and executives with Cerner Corp. about problems with the company’s electronic health record system being ...