The Department of Veterans Affairs will receive $1.8 billion in funding under the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill to support the rollout of its electronic health record system to facilities across the country in 2023, Nextgov reported Friday.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, which President Biden signed into law Thursday, allows the continued deployment of the Cerner-designed EHR system at VA-run facilities.
VA is moving forward with the EHR deployment despite reported system outages, concerns about patient safety risks and cost overruns.
In early December, VA issued a presolicitation notice on a potential single-award contract to provide training and administrative space to support the department’s EHR modernization effort at the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center.
The draft solicitation was released less than two months after VA awarded Cerner a pair of task orders worth $956 million combined to continue to roll out the EHR system.
