The U.S. Department of
Defense has narrowed the field to three contenders for the estimated $11
billion upgrade to the DoD EHR:
- Computer Sciences Corp., HP, and Allscripts
- Cerner, Leidos, and Accenture Federal
- IBM, Epic, and Impact Advisors
The winning EHR
company will certainly benefit greatly, both from the DoD, and in the
healthcare sphere in general, but I'm sure the other two will also benefit from
the vote of confidence on their ability to deliver EHR capable of achieving
Meaningful Use.
Numerous challenges
have been noted by the bidders:
- Interoperability - Allscripts senior vice presi dent, sales, Dean Mericka says interoperability will lead to personalized precision medicine and improved telemedicine.
- DoD mission and culture - Cerner Federal VP and general manager Travis Dalton notes that the task goes far beyond bringing a set of tools. The winning vendor will have to adapt to the DoD's culture, philosophy and mission.
- Scalability - Epic U.S. federal and global services executive Leslie Karls indicates the scalability of the solution is key.
Those are just the EHR
perspectives. The IT and infrastructure challenges present a whole other level
of difficulties.
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