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

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

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

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.

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. 

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 …

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 …

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 …

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” …

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 …

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 …

Health IT company Cerner Corp. has selected Cloudera’s enterprise data hub to power its big data platform in an effort to analyze healthcare information and improve patient outcomes. Mike Olson, founder and chief strategy officer for Cloudera, said Thursday the company will work with Cerner “to capture, organize, analyze and …

Jerry Hogge, deputy group president of Leidos’ health solutions group, said interoperability and connectivity are among key features the U.S. Defense Department want from the agency’s future electronic health records system, EHRintelligence reported Thursday. Jennifer Bresnick interviewed Hogge along with Jim Traficant, managing director of Accenture Federal Services, and Travis …

Ciber Inc. and Cerner Corp. have partnered to jointly provide Infor application management and hosting services for healthcare organizations looking to increase current service offerings. The joint effort combines Cerner’s hosting services with Ciber’s Infor management, implementation and upgrade, which the two companies hope to sustain customers’ Infor software investments without additional …

Paul Bradley, previously vice president of technology at information technology consulting firm AbleVets, has been appointed chief technology officer at health IT company MedicaSoft, FedHealth IT reported Tuesday.