Immelt's Life After GE Leads to Health Firm Targeted by Activist Athenahealth continues its leadership… Cerner will boost Kansas City workforce by 600 Cerner will use reinvested tax break money to hire 600 workers at its headquarters in Kansas City, MO.

Lissy Hu, MD, MBA is co-founder and CEO of CarePort Health of Boston, MA. Tell… That being said, most of our customers are Epic or Cerner.

Top News The White House’s budget request would give the VA $1.2 billion in FY2019…2 billion in FY2019 funding to begin its Cerner implementation, broken out as $675 million initial payment for the Cerner contract, $120 million for program management, and $412 million for infrastructure support (which includes VistA modernization). Cerner has apparently passed the third-party review of its interoperability capabilities that was holding up contract signing. Cerner files its employment agreement with new Chairman and CEO Brent Shafer with the SEC. Top-ranked vendors include Allscripts (South Asia, UK); Cerner (Oceania, Middle East); InterSystems (Nordic Europe), ChipSoft (Western Europe); and Orion Health (Canada); Everiss NTT Data (Latin America), and Neusoft (China).

Top News Thursday’s meeting of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs covered the VA’s FY2019… Phil Roe, MD (R-TN) said the value of the Cerner contract alone in the VA’s EHR project will be $10 billion, not including infrastructure and VistA maintenance costs. He thinks it will need to run for many years for looking up information that can’t be converted to Cerner. Jim Banks (R-IN) questioned the rollout of a scheduling system given that the pending Cerner project has “run into trouble. The company is pitching its DbMotion to the VA as it transitions over several years to Cerner or whatever vendor it chooses. Adventist Health hospitals in California will shift 1,200 IT and revenue cycle employees to Cerner, according to layoff notices filed with the state. McLaren Oakland (MI) will go live on Cerner in late 2018 or early 2019. Other The CEO of Medical Center Health (TX) tells the board that its Cerner implementation is one of the organization’s most pressing issues, explaining, “This was an attempt to find an ideal system. He says Cerner blamed hospital clinicians and administrators – “pretty much everyone except themselves” – for not implementing the system correctly, but says the hospital and vendor are now working together and Cerner is providing consultants at no charge.