VistA news from FierceGovernmentIT

Veterans Affairs Department personnel wanting a mobile device such as an iPad for work must justify a business case for it, said VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker while speaking to reporters Read more...

North Chicago's James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, the remodeled Illinois hospital which has served as a pilot for Veterans Affairs- and Defense-department facility collaboration, began Read more...

Electronic health record compatibility at the nation's only fully integrated Defense and Veterans Affairs departments hospital remains an only partially-achieved ambition, says the Government Read more...

Adapted from "Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies," by William M. Ulrich and Philip Newcomb. To download a .pdf of the full case study, click here. Read more...

Rarely is agency use of a particular programming language the subject of discussion at senior levels of agency leadership or during congressional hearings, but the Veterans Affairs Department's usage Read more...

The Veterans Affairs Department awarded June 17 an almost $5 million contract for an open source custodial agent that will manage an electronic health record "ecosystem." The contract winner is The Read more...

The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments' integrated electronic health record--or iEHR, as it's being called--will be housed in a cloud computing environment hosted by the Defense Information Read more...

The Defense Department will participate in the Veterans Affairs Department's source selection of a "custodial agent" meant to set up a moderated open source electronic health record development Read more...

The future Veterans Affairs and Defense Department joint electronic health record system will not necessarily be built on proprietary software, said VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker--despite Read more...

The Veterans Affairs Department is moving ahead with a plan to set up a moderated "open source ecosystem" forming around its electronic health record, known as VistA. In a draft request for proposals Read more...