14 organizations are looking to join federal electronic health record program
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ByChristian Robles,
Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW
September 3, 2026 12:04 PM ET
The office tasked with helping agencies deploy the federal EHR is looking to move toward cloud infrastructure, enhance interoperability and scale an artificial intelligence technology.
More than a dozen U.S. government agencies are in various stages of joining the federal electronic health record modernization program, or FEHRM, which is seeking to make health data exchanges seamless and move to cloud-based infrastructure.
“At least 14 different federal partners are in some stage of negotiations with us to join the federal EHR program. Some are just inquiries. Some are just asking, and some are more serious. Some of them actually are in the stage of developing functional requirements documents,” said Lance Scott, chief technology officer for the FEHRM Office.
“We’re really really happy to see it expanding,” he said at the GovCIO...
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