Billions of dollars, dozens of hearings, three administrations and no answers. On the VA’s fourth attempt to modernize electronic health records, Congress says “enough.”

Across the aisle, lawmakers expressed outrage over the recent contract ceiling hike after Oracle’s CEO told Congress four years ago that the company would not raise costs.

The department's move to stop implementation of the platform while contract negotiations take place has received bipartisan support from Congress.

Contracting specialists say creating a chief management officer position at the Department of Veterans Affairs may not solve issues with the EHR program.

Rep. Mike Bost's comments follow details of alternative legislation being discussed by Democrat lawmakers.

The proposed legislation is focused on halting further implementation of the health records system until all functionality issues are resolved.

A dataset obtained by FedScoop through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that the Oracle-Cerner electronic health records system had a total of 498 major incidents…