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Coast Guard next to pick Cerner? Vendor is already prepping its EHR for the high seas

Healthcare IT News: Now that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, MD, revealed that VA has officially opted to replace its VistA EHR with one from Cerner, the overarching question: Is Cerner now a shoo-in for the Coast Guard’s upcoming EHR implementation?

USCG, after all, listed interoperability with DoD and VA as among the top attributes it is seeking in an electronic health record platform.

“The solution will protect Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Health Information and will markedly enhance core and priority USCG health care services and improve interoperability with both the Department of Defense (DoD) Military Health System and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health systems,” the Coast Guard said in the request for information that closed in the last week of May.

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