Oracle's Federal Electronic Health Record experienced a nation-wide outage

Oracle's Federal Electronic Health Record experienced a nation-wide outage on Tuesday, the Department of Veterans Affairs confirmed to CNBC. The agency said "all users" of the company's Federal EHR, including the VA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, were impacted. Six VA medical centers, 26 community clinics, and remote VA sites experienced disruptions, the agency said. "Affected VA medical facilities followed standard contingency procedures during the outage to ensure continuity of care for Veterans," a VA spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. An electronic health record, or an EHR, is a digital version of a patient's medical history that's updated by doctors and nurses. It's crucial software within the U.S. health-care system, and outages can cause serious disruptions to patient care. Oracle is one of the largest EHR vendors thanks to it's $28 billion acquisition of the medical records giant Cerner in 20 ... Read full article.