{"id":404,"date":"2026-06-12T09:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:07:37","slug":"oracle-health-government-services-6-93-billion-a-broken-va-contract-and-a-name-nobody-recognizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/oracle-health-government-services-6-93-billion-a-broken-va-contract-and-a-name-nobody-recognizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Health Government Services: $6.93 Billion, a Broken VA Contract, and a Name Nobody Recognizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company ranked sixth in federal IT spending in FY2026 was formerly called Cerner Government Services \u2014 a name that no longer appears in procurement records. Rebranded after Oracle&#8217;s $28.3 billion acquisition closed in 2022, it now holds a contract worth up to $16 billion to digitize the medical records of every American veteran. That project has been plagued by patient safety failures, a deployment pause, a bribery prosecution of the VA official who oversaw it, and a congressional push for contract termination. Now the same company has won a new $396 million contract to rebuild the federal government&#8217;s entire HR infrastructure \u2014 while Oracle&#8217;s chairman sits on the President&#8217;s science and technology council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/oracle_health_government_services_report.php\">https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/oracle_health_government_services_report.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company ranked sixth in federal IT spending in FY2026 was formerly called Cerner Government Services \u2014 a name that no longer appears in procurement records. Rebranded after Oracle&#8217;s $28.3 billion acquisition closed in 2022, it now holds a contract worth up to $16 billion to digitize the medical records of every American veteran. That &#8230; <a title=\"Oracle Health Government Services: $6.93 Billion, a Broken VA Contract, and a Name Nobody Recognizes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/oracle-health-government-services-6-93-billion-a-broken-va-contract-and-a-name-nobody-recognizes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oracle Health Government Services: $6.93 Billion, a Broken VA Contract, and a Name Nobody Recognizes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}