The Food and Drug Administration has enlisted Oracle subsidiary Cerner Enviza and John Snow Labs to use artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing to help boost drug safety. The collaboration is part of FDA’s Sentinel Initiative, a two-year project that aims to analyze electronic clinical notes to understand drug side effects, Oracle said […] More

Oracle has selected consultancy firm Accenture to help train Department of Veterans Affairs clinicians on the Cerner-built electronic health record platform, FedScoop reported Tuesday. Under the recently signed contract, Accenture will provide additional training to VA clinicians in support of the next rollout of the Cerner EHR system, according to Ken Glueck, executive vice president […] More

Cerner will help the Social Security Administration modernize its electronic health record retrieval system under a new agreement. The health care technology provider said Thursday it has agreed to transition the SSA from a system that relies on faxed or mailed scanned health documentation to a streamlined electronic database. After the work is performed, the company […] More

Elder Granger, a retired U.S. Army major general, has joined Cerner as a member of the company’s board of directors. 

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Cerner and the Department of Veterans Affairs have deployed an electronic health record system at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. 

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Jerome Labat, a three-decade software market veteran, has been named chief technology officer of health information technology provider Cerner.

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Patrick Murphy, previously the acting secretary of the U.S. Army, has been appointed chairman of Cerner’s government advisory board succeeding former U.S. senator and Nebraska governor Bob Kerrey.

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Tiphanie Forst, former senior executive of U.S. federal accounts at Cerner, has joined SeKON Enterprise as senior vice president for federal health growth, G2Xchange Health reported Tuesday. 

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Cerner has announced that the Defense Department has started to see improvements in health care services delivery following the initial deployment of its new electronic health records platform, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Travis Dalton, president of government services at Cerner, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the adoption of the MHS Genesis system has resulted […] More

Cerner has formed an organization of private firms that will help perform a potential 10-year, $10B contract to modernize the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health care record. The EHR modernization team will resume the health information technology company’s work in meeting the medical needs of veterans, Cerner said Wednesday. VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said the team […] More

Leidos has joined a Cerner-led team to upgrade the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health record system through the deployment of the same EHR platform used at the Defense Department’s medical facilities worldwide. “As lead systems integrator for the DoD’s Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) program, we are pleased that the deployment of MHS […] More

Cerner President Zane Burke has said the health information technology company hopes to retain its partnership with Leidos and Accenture for the delivery of a modernized electronic health record system to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Healthcare IT News reported Thursday. The team known as the “Leidos Partnership for Defense Health” won a potential $9 billion […] More