Democrats Demand Answers on VA’s EHRM Contract Increase

The top Democrats on the House and Senate committees overseeing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) want to know why the department increased the ceiling of its contract with Oracle Health for the agency’s Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program by nearly $17 billion. Mark Takano, D-Calif., and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., ranking members of the VA committees, sent an Oct.