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NewsVA's Baker: No wholesale dumping of MUMPS
As the Veterans Affairs Department sorts through responses to a request for information on the viability of open source software as a component of the VistA electronic health record architecture,... Read more...
Let's hope OGIS makes a difference with FOIA
In the report accompanying their markup of the fiscal 2011 National Archives and Records Administration budget, Senate appropriators direct that $3 million of the full $348.7 million NARA request... Read more...
Guest commentary: FOIA is a tool for VA reform
Guest post by Kristina Brown, Hilary Dockray and Paul SullivanThe Department of Veterans Affairs has already treated a staggering 537,000 Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran patients since their return... Read more...
VA investigates VistA EHR open source
A few months after being urged to embrace open source for its electronic health record system by an industry group, the Veterans Affairs Department says it's investigating the possibility. The... Read more...
Auditors fault VA cybersecurity in teleradiology contracts
A Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general audit of remote radiological patient image analysis practices found several cybersecurity holes in the handling of patient data. The audit, dated... Read more...
VA cancels financial IT modernization portions of FLITE project
The Veterans Affairs Department said July 13 that it will not go forward with a planned financial system modernization project on which it has already spent $16 million. The project, along with an... Read more...
AUDIO - Roger Baker and Vivek Kundra announce cancellation of VA financial management project
The Veterans Affairs Department announced July 13 it will cancel the financial management portion of its Financial and Logistics Integrated Technology Enterprise (FLITE) program after spending $16... Read more...
IT projects at VA at risk, says GAO
Information technology management issues that caused the Veterans Affairs Department to spend $127 million on a failed outpatient scheduling application could harm a second attempt to create such a... Read more...
No easy solutions for VA information assurance
Information assurance isn't as simple as a contract clause requiring safeguards such as encryption and policies limiting access to personal data, Veterans Affairs Department officials told a House... Read more...
Data loss deja vu at the VA
A Veterans Affairs Department contractor laptop containing the personal data of about 644 veterans was stolen in Texas earlier this year, revealed Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.) in a public letter to VA... Read more...
| Press ReleasesGTRI Awarded $108 Million Multi-Year Cisco SMARTnet Proposal from the Department of Veterans AffairsDENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Global Technology Resources, Inc., a leading technology consulting provider, announced today that it has been awarded a $108 Million Multi-Year Cisco SMARTnet Consolidated Read more >> Harris Corporation Leverages CONNECT Solution to Enhance Patient Information Exchange Between DoD and VANew Capabilities Include Transfer of Medical Imagery and Associated StudiesWASHINGTON, June 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), as a subcontractor to Evolvent Technologies, Read more >> InformationWeek Government to Bring Together Top Technology Leaders in Government Sector to Discuss Cybersecurity, Open GovernmeChris Kemp, CTO of IT with NASA, and Henry Sienkiewicz, CIO, Defense Information Systems Agency join Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, as speakers at the Government IT Leadership ForumWASHINGTON, May 24 Read more >> GlobalMedia’s CapSure Medical Imaging Software Validated for Use with DoD/VA VistA SystemCompany Joins Short List of Fortune 100 Firms on Validated Vendors List for Veterans Health Information System SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GlobalMedia Group, LLC, announced today that its Read more >> Industry Recommends 'Game Changing' Approach to VistA ModernizationIAC Task Force Unanimous in Recommending "Reengineered" VistA System Provided in an Open Source EnvironmentFAIRFAX, Va., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Industry Advisory Council (IAC) is today releasing a Read more >> |
