"I disagree with the decision to select Columbus, Ohio, where the EPIC scheduling system was installed as a pilot."
"There seems to be an assumption that everything known about EPIC is also true about Cerner."
"Thank you, Madam Chair."
"VA needed a modern scheduling system years ago; how can we say 2025 is an acceleration?"
"It is no longer possible to talk about VistA without discussing Cerner and vice versa."
"Do you stand by the VistA cost information that VA gave to GAO?"
"Is there ever going to be a business case demonstrating savings even over the very long term or is that just unrealistic?"
"Okay. How many of the VistA-to-Cerner interfaces have been completed now and when is the deadline to complete all of them?"
"What is the deadline to determine which VistA modules get replaced by which Cerner's software package or other companies' software, and which VistA modules have you yet to determine a plan for?"
"All right. Dr. O'Toole, really quick, what is VHA's expectation for the Cerner data from the early sites coming back into VistA at the later sites?"
"As you can imagine, I am very proud of that piece of legislation that I was a part of writing and seeing it passed through the State legislature in my home State."