According to the report, "Officials said they've already seen patient care improvements at the initial test sites as a result of the new system. Outpatient visits were up 32 percent in the first half of the year as appointment efficiency improved. Hospital staffers estimated more than 2,300 duplicate lab orders were eliminated." In May, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) finally inked its own contract with Cerner to overhaul and modernize the department's aging EHR system, called VistA. VA, which signed the $10 billion contract nearly a year after announcing that it would be going with Cerner, will be adopting the same platform as the DoD.