Oracle’s sweeping layoffs are raising fresh concerns about the Department of Veterans Affairs’s effort to expand its Electronic Health Records system, a massive federal project the company is responsible for building and maintaining across the VA’s nationwide network.

The system, originally developed by Cerner before Oracle acquired the company in 2022, is intended to create a single, fully integrated medical record shared between the VA and the Pentagon. The overhaul spans more than 170 VA medical centers and has been billed as a long-overdue fix to fragmented records that have historically followed service members from active duty into the VA system.