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

Healthcare technology developer Cerner has been awarded a potential $73.7 million sole-source contract to host clinical data for the initial operating phase of the Defense Department‘s future Genesis military health records system, FCW reported Thursday. Zach Noble writes the award is an add-on to the $4.3 billion Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract the team of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture won in July 2015. DoD initially […] More

Cerner has been contracted to refresh the Military Health System’s anatomic pathology laboratory information system for the Defense Health Agency. The company will install its server hardware, peripheral equipment and services in the Defense Department“™s anatomic pathology laboratories worldwide and issue the company“™s CoPathPlus software licenses, Cerner said July 8. DHA intends to implement CoPathPlus to help the […] More