July 14: The VA said it was scrapping its Cerner EHR deployment timeline as lawmakers decipher what went wrong. In a hearing before the Senate VA Committee, Mr. McDonough said the department discovered "numerous patient safety concerns and system errors" with Cerner's EHR program. Mr. McDonough said the hiccups the rollout has encountered were not the fault of the VA's hospital staff, but the missteps of VA and Cerner leadership.