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The VA will expand its 2026 Oracle Health rollout from four sites to 13.
The VA has faced recent criticism from both Congress and Oracle Health for its slow go-live pace, which it acknowledges…
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The VA will expand its 2026 Oracle Health rollout from four sites to 13.
The VA has faced recent criticism from both Congress and Oracle Health for its slow go-live pace, which it acknowledges…
Another national outage this week has prompted a new focus on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Electronic Health Records Modernization effort.WHY IT MATTERS
The Spokane VA Medical Center said it experienced an outage of its…
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Walgreens reaches an agreement to sell itself to private equity firm Sycamore Partners for $10 billion.
Sycamore is expected to keep the core US retail business and then either spin off or sell segments…
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VA secretary nominee Doug Collins tells the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee that he will review the VA’s Oracle Health implementation with a fresh perspective and is optimistic about its completion.
Collins expressed confidence that…
More than 18 months after the Veterans Administration paused new deployments of its Oracle electronic health record system to make critical improvements to the EHR and improve patient safety at five VA health systems,…
Continue ReadingExclusive: Software supplier OneAdvanced has confirmed that it is removing the Carenotes electronic patient record (EPR) from its product portfolio.
It follows a cyber attack in August 2022 which led to critical health services, including…
An outage to the EMIS IT system caused “chaos” for GPs in England when access was cut off to appointment booking systems and patient records at the busiest time of the week.
EMIS is the…
Outdated systems were holding back progress at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust. The existing infrastructure, based around data centres, was inflexible, hard to scale and expensive. The network was averaging a P1…
Continue ReadingThe following is a guest article by Brian Doyle, SVP at Rectangle Health
Recent cyberattacks in the industry caused significant disruptions in healthcare claims processing and billing, impacting physicians, patients, and insurers. A survey done…
In testimony before the United States House of Representatives on Tuesday, Adam Meyers, senior VP of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, apologized for the worldwide technology outage this past summer that disabled millions of Microsoft…
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