Five Key Questions That Will Need To Be Answered About the DoD/Cerner Contract (and Cannot Possibly Be Answered Right Now)

Healthcare Informatics: When, at about 5 PM eastern time on Thursday, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced that it had awarded a massive contract worth billions of dollars, for the implementation of a commercially available electronic health record (EHR) solution, to the Kansas City-based Cerner Corporation, over its rivals, the Verona, Wis.-based Epic Systems Corporation and the Chicago-based Allscripts, the reveal capped months of speculation.

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