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The Department of Veterans Affairs says its new Electronic Health Record (EHR) hasn\u2019t seen a total outage in more than six months.\nBut the Oracle-Cerner EHR still isn\u2019t meeting a standard in its contract with VA for the system to run incident-free at least 95% of the time.\nAs of Nov. 8, the Oracle-Cerner EHR has gone 185 consecutive days without a total outage within the VA, and has seen 100% system availability in\xa010 of the last 12 months.\nBut Kurt DelBene, VA\u2019s assistant secretary for Information and Technology and its chief information officer, told members of the House VA Committee that the EHR still doesn\u2019t meet a standard for incident-free time outlined in its contract with the vendor.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices