Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending May 20: VA signs $10bn contract with Cerner, VA blasted for dodgy CIO, NHS aims for HIMSS level 7, Amazon-JPM-Berkshire delay, CT and ECG vulnerabilities, patient access to info stymied, open source imaging, MHS Genesis “riddled with errors”
VA finally pulls trigger and awards Cerner $10B EHR contract
Health Data Management ~ Greg Slabodkin ~ 17/05/2018
After nearly a year of negotiations with Cerner, the Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday finally awarded the vendor a $10 billion electronic health record modernization contract to replace the VA’s decades-old legacy EHR system.
England to get first HIMSS 7 hospitals before year’s end
Digital Health News ~ Owen Hughes ~ 17/05/2018
NHS England will have its first HIMSS Stage 7 hospitals by the end of 2018, Will Smart has said, as he laid out his vision to offer ‘comprehensive, longitudinal care records’ for all 55 million English citizens within the next five years.
