The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee voted to subpoena Oracle Health executives this week after a hearing on the VA‘s massive EHR project turned contentious.
Lawmakers from both parties pushed back on a recent increase to the contract’s cost ceiling. This price hike — which is almost triple the amount lawmakers had originally signed off on — came despite Oracle telling Congress four years ago that the company wouldn’t increase the contract’s price tag.
When the VA initially signed its EHR modernization contract with Cerner in 2018, it cost $10 billion. Oracle acquired Cerner in 2022 for $28.3 billion,…
