...with accelerating what many of us observers considered a ‘dead in the water’ repair and rollout. The biggest change is the standardization of the system across the VAMCs; the previous deployments allowed for too much customization by facility, something Oracle wasn’t exactly equipped to handle with the legacy Cerner system. Federal News Network There’s also an enjoyable, locally made YouTube video of the go-live at the Dayton VAMC. It focuses on the IT team and how they are helping the clinical staff, including the first new patient entered into the EHR. Complete with an opening group prayer service and dancing–how... Continue Reading
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Selling Oracle Health’s EHR–what are the potential buyers, their odds, and price?
...obligation. The VA EHRM, as TTA has chronicled, started rolling out in 2020 and by 2023 was halted after five implementations Due to Disaster. It resumed in April 2026. The VA and Congressional process for funding now has tight guardrails in place on continuance. Who will buy the Oracle/Cerner EHR operation is the question. For how much isn’t as clear. Selling Oracle Cerner “represents the most significant “lump sum” of liquidity available. In the Nelson analogy, Oracle took the Cerner cow, milked it of data to feed its data into its LLMs, and no longer wants knackered ol’ Bessie even... Continue Reading
Post-holiday news roundup: Oracle Health acute care EHR market share crumbles to 20%–what that means; retail real estate downsizer marketing Walgreens leases; Oura files for US IPO, Swoop buys NimbleRx
...Oracle layoffs (10,000 in the US, with 539 employees laid off effective 26 May-1 June in Kansas City, Cerner’s former HQ and presumably where most EHR staff remained): Is Health, once the focus of Oracle’s Big Transformation, now just a used and broken toy? What’s the future of Oracle Health if the strategy is AI 24/7 and EHRs and healthcare system SaaS just do not fit the picture anymore? Yet Oracle cannot simply close the division and turn off the systems. In addition to hospitals and health systems, let’s not forget that the VA is back to sprinting towards an... Continue Reading
Holiday weekend roundup: VA asks for ‘cyberspeed’ 25% EHR budget bump, update on EHRM fraud indictment; Commure raises $70M; Innovaccer buys Caduceus, lays off staff; Doximity, OpenEvidence slugfest gets hot
...2020 and four more in 2022, resulting in the rollout’s termination in 2023, Oracle would be unwise to not prepare for a few questions about Cerner’s relationship with Mr. Windom, as I wrote at the time. The PJ Media article also references the comprehensive article in the 27 March Spokane Spokesman-Review, which has been on the Cerner/Oracle implementation story since the implementation failure in the region’s Mann-Grandstaff VA facility. Their check of the OEHRM website as of that date confirmed that Mr. Windom was still listed as the deputy director of the Federal Electronic Health Management Office, the joint VA-DOD... Continue Reading
Former VA EHRM executive director Federally charged with accepting vendor cash and gifts, making false statements
...District of Columbia, the FBI Washington Field Office, and the Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General (OIG). It is being prosecuted by Assistant US Attorney Emily Miller. No timeline for the start of the trial was announced. None of this seems to have directly involved Cerner, now Oracle Health, per the indictment. But in this Editor’s opinion, because of Mr. Windom’s role in the selection of the Cerner EHR and the disastrous implementation of VA Mann-Grandstaff (VISN 20) in October 2020 and four more in 2022, all terminated in 2023, Oracle would be unwise to not prepare for a... Continue Reading
The Oracle shoe dropped: Oracle lays off 18%–20-30K–of global employees, in their largest ever layoff (Updated 2 Apr)
...many thousands in IT and development, indicated the layoffs hit hardest in these areas–FTA RollingOut via Times of India: RHS (Revenue and Health Sciences) — employees described a reduction in force of at least 30%, with 16 or more engineers from individual business units cut in a single action. (Editor’s Note: this includes the Oracle Health EHR team which was the former Cerner) SVOS (SaaS and Virtual Operations Services) — similarly reported a 30% or greater reduction, with manager-level roles included in the sweep. NetSuite’s India Development Centre (IDC) — cuts spanned project management, individual contributor, and manager roles across... Continue Reading
Breaking–Oracle Health loses five executives sent there to fix Cerner: report. And what is it telling us?
Michael E Brown I truly expected Cerner and Oracle to fail the VA and that is coming to bear. The former Undersecretary for Health at VA who made the "unilateral decision" to go with Cerner without the correct evaluations needs to be critical failure on his part. Donna Cusano 2017 and 2018 does feel like an eternity ago, doesn't it? Some history here: MHS had awarded their EHR contract to Cerner and Leidos to replace AHLTA in July 2015. There was a previous failed billion-dollar effort to make VistA and AHLTA interoperable. So the choice of Cerner in 2017 with... Continue Reading
What’s happening now with the VA on the Oracle EHRM rollout?
...remain 32 OIG recommendations that are not fully implemented as VA resumes system deployments. (Editor’s emphasis) The original ten-year Cerner agreement to replace the venerable but non-interoperable VistA eight years ago (May 2018) was a $10 billion contract, later revised to over $16 billion. After the failures of four years ago, it was rewritten at the five-year point in 2023 to, frankly, bring Oracle Cerner to heel. The 2020 and 2022 implementations were disastrous: Mann-Grandstaff (VISN 20) in October 2020 and four more in 2022. The only 2024 implementation was joint with the DOD Military Health System at the Lovell... Continue Reading
Summing up the speculation: will Oracle sell off Oracle Health/Cerner to finance $300B OpenAI datacenter buildout?
...Yet the price of this is to abandon its massive investment in healthcare, a linchpin strategy, and the customers there. And there are Federal consequences: the completely incomplete VA implementation scheduled to resume this year and the complete, but still in progress, Department of Defense system. Let’s look at what the effect may be on Oracle Health. Oracle bought Cerner back in December 2021 for $28.3 billion–after Cerner’s troubles with the VA EHR implementation and in the midst of the Department of Defense rollout. Oracle now is a fading number 2 in health system EHR implementations. It was all Epic,... Continue Reading
News roundup 22 May: an inflight ‘save’ and AliveCor’s KardiaMobile, rolling out the VA/Oracle EHR in ‘waves’, Fuze Health formed from LetsGetChecked/Truepill, hacking and ransomware 92% of PHI data breaches
...three hours later. At the hospital, the Dutch patient was examined over 12 hours and eventually discharged, as he was not diagnosed with a heart attack, stroke or pulmonary embolism, according to the passenger’s wife speaking with CNN. Dr. Trad was able to catch his connecting flight home. From an aviation perspective, it underscores the need for medical training and an emergency kit for monitoring this type of incident. Hat tip to Dave Albert, MD, founder and chief medical officer of AliveCor. VA now dubbing the rollout of the Oracle Cerner EHR as a ‘wave’ strategy. Dr. Neil Evans, the... Continue Reading
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