More importantly to Cerner, the company is learning from its early work with the DoD, experience that can carry over to commercial customers and position Cerner to land additional federal contracts, including, perhaps, a forthcoming EHR overhaul at the VA.
The first rollout was to begin in December at a Seattle-area naval hospital, but that will be pushed back to 2017.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Thursday at the annual HIMSS Policy Summit in Washington, part of National Health IT Week, a wounded warrior told of his frustrations dealing with both health systems, and why he thinks better health IT can help.
Wednesday's news that the team of Cerner, Leidos and Accenture Federal had won the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract to replace the Department of Defense's electronic health records system came as a bit of a surprise, as many had assumed Epic Systems and IBM were shoo-ins.
Cerner beat out competing bids from the teams of Epic Systems and IBM; and Allscripts, Computer Sciences Corp. and Hewlett-Packard.
It's not the coveted $11 billion DoD Healthcare Management System Modernization contract, but Cerner has won a Department of Defense solicitation to replace the Military Health System's anatomic pathology laboratory information system.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.