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VA'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...
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...
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...
VA on an IT shut down tear
The Veterans Affairs Department has suspended funding for 188 of 280 information technology programs, reports 1105 GovInfo. The department began suspending programs about a year ago after reviewing... Read more...
VA in market for 360,000 PCs
The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to buy a lot of computers--360,000 PCs to add to its fleet of 240,000, to be exact. The VA plans to award one indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity... Read more...
VA's budget tech-heavy for 2010
It's nice to know that these tough economic times are not affecting essential IT projects at federal agencies, at least not at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Senate has approved $3.3 billion... Read more...
Are federal CIOs on verge of more power?
The power of federal CIOs has been evolving ever since they were created by the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. With the Obama administration seeking a more robust information technology, industry experts... Read more...
