Former VA Secretary David Shulkin, MD, released the agency’s plan to scrap VistA for a systemwide Cerner EHR during a news briefing in mid-2017. However, the VA will need to maintain its legacy EHR across the dozens of facilities still using it prior to the Cerner go-live, which it aims to complete over the next 10 years.
The technical, managerial and administrative services for VistA’s EHR and imaging systems are currently run on Hewlett-Packard servers and an OpenVMS operating system. The VA’s existing maintenance contract for VistA expires Oct. 3.
To ensure there aren’t lapses in operations, the VA released a request for information Sept. 17, seeking maintenance and support services vendors for the EHR’s imaging and architecture operations. The VA expects the contract to include a base year with four 12-month option additions.
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