Oracle’s Federal Electronic Healthcare Outage Disrupts VA, Defense, and NOAA Operations

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Oracle’s Federal Electronic Health Record suffered a nationwide outage on Tuesday, affecting all users, including the VA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Coast Guard, and NOAA.

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00:00It's Benzinga, bringing Wall Street to Main Street.

00:02Oracle's federal electronic health record suffered a nationwide outage on Tuesday,

00:07affecting all users, including the VA, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Coast Guard,

00:11as well as NOAA. The disruption impacted VA medical centers, community clinics,

00:15and remote VA sites, according to the agency. The electronic health record is a digital patient

00:20history updated by medical staff, and outages can disrupt patient care. Oracle became one of

00:26the largest EHR vendors after acquiring Cerner for $28 billion in 2022. It's conducting an

00:32internal investigation into the outage. For all things money, visit Benzinga.com.

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