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A Lifetime of Data: Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs Journey to Genesis

Cloudera

The DoD/VA team spent four years and $1 billion on a joint records program called iEHR, only to abandon it in 2013 in favor of separate systems (neither one could scale). The centerpiece of MHS Genesis is Cerner’s Millennium services management platform, which provides hosted software-as-a-service functionality in the cloud.