From plans to shake up its leadership to updates on its modernization program with the Department of Veterans Affairs, here are six updates on Oracle Cerner's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in July.
- The Department of Veterans Affairs said it would delay the rollout of its Oracle Cerner EHR system at Boise (Idaho) VA Medical Center; Seattle, Wash.-based VA Puget Sound Health Care System; and VA Portland (Ore.) Health Care System.
- Oracle Cerner increased its total beds contracted outside of the U.S., and the EHR giant's customer base now consists of 2,389 acute inpatient hospitals, including 1,052 non-U.S. clients.
- Kenneth Glueck, executive vice president of Oracle, sent a letter to VA leaders stating the company is examining its EHR system, including a feature that caused referral orders to effectively go missing at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Due to long-identified issues with the Oracle Cerner's EHR system's reliability and safety, the EHR rollout was delayed from its original estimates by at least one to two years at some VA hospitals and clinics. The EHR installations, which already have a $16 billion price tag, could triple due to the delays.
- An internal email from an Oracle executive shared on Reddit describes changes to the former Cerner EHR business. The EHR business will now be called Oracle Health and former Cerner president and CEO David Feinberg, MD, will become chair of Oracle Health.
- VA Roseburg (Ore.) Health Care System's Oracle Cerner EHR system was partially taken offline due to a glitch in its system. During that time, physicians and clinicians received a "webpage not found" message when trying to access the health center's patient registration platform leaving them unable to register patients.