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Thomas Dworetzky, Contributing Reporter | October 02, 2018
"If you had an ax to grind with us and wanted to perhaps keep us from getting to a Veterans [Administration] contract, and you’re one of our competitors, you might want to use some information negatively. There was some negative information out there," he said during a a recent shareholders' meeting, soon after the new, no-bid, 10-year, $10 billion deal with the VA for its system had been signed.
The VA deal, heavily favored by Jared Kushner, came about because Veterans Affairs wanted its EHR system to be compatible with the Cerner one used at DoD.
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The DoD deal came after an open-bidding process.
The VA deal had gotten hung up after a government report that the EHR system at DoD was "neither operationally effective nor operationally suitable,"
according to Politico.
Burke claimed the report of snags was overblown and that, “there were some known elements up front as we rolled out the first three sites. The plan always was to come back and do a remediation of those three sites, do an evaluation and make things better.”
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