It took a while to plough through 4 hours of Acquired podcast. I have been a fan of their work…
Morning Headlines 3/7/25
Oracle’s Federal Electronic Health Record experienced a nation-wide outage
The VA clarifies that an EHR outage earlier this week impacted all federal EHR users, including the VA, DoD, US Coast Guard, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Lumata Health Secures $23 Million Series B to Expand Access and Adherence to Vision-Saving Care
Eye care management vendor Lumata Health raises $23 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raised to $36 million.
Oregon Health & Science University will pay a $200,000 penalty for taking over a year to provide a patient with her requested medical records.
VA to complete Federal EHR deployment at nine additional sites in 2026
The VA will implement its Oracle Health-based EHR at nine additional sites next year, bringing the total expected to go live in 2026 to 13.
What a day to announce an accelerated deployment when you’re in the same news-cycle as your vendor’s nation-wide outage. The IT gods play wicked games with us mere geeks.
Don’t forget the announcement the day before about cutting 80k VA jobs! Really an incredible combination.
I think if you’d look at the recent hearings, VA was saying Cerner would require a 10% increase in staff when deployed. I may be wrong on 10% but I know VA was saying it would need more staffing to make Cerner work; and work SAFELY. Collin’s taking a substantial risk. He either doesn’t believe what VA’s been saying, or he’s a gambler with patient lives. Stories like this don’t give me confidence about what’s happening in 810 Vermont https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-va-official-barricaded-himself-234311091.html
” ….An EHR outage earlier this week impacted all federal EHR users, including the VA, DoD, US Coast Guard, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.”
DOGE #1 to DOGE #2 – “I told you not to comment out that line of code …”
At what point do we quit pretending Oracle has an EMR suitable for the VAs. needs and revert back to VistA ?