DoD

A Billion Here..And the New DOD EHR Contract

Everett Dirkson, the Illinois Senator, did not actually say “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money”, although he did say he wished he had. The billions, or $4.3 billion to be exact, that I have been thinking about is the Department of Defense two year contract with Cerner, Accenture Federal and Leidos to provide an EHR to 8 hospitals in the first year and eventually 55 hospitals and 600 clinics.

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