VA switch to Cerner EHR too big an opportunity not to get right, Secretary Shulkin says

Healthcare IT News: In his keynote speech at HIMSS18 on Friday, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, MD, confessed: "I always believed I would be the last doctor in America to go an electronic health record. I loved my paper."

Today, he sits atop an agency amid one of the largest EHR transitions in history -- with a ticket price to match. And three months ago, Shulkin hit pause on contract negotiations with Cerner because he was "concerned that way we were approaching this interoperability, the way that the industry was approaching this, was not going to get us where we needed to go.”

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