Re: Top "10 or more" Reasons the VA Should Protect

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Re: Top "10 or more" Reasons the VA Should Protect
by Tim Cook on Tuesday November 13, @05:28AM

A point to note is that somehow no matter how "in over their heads" these bandits seem to get. They never seem to actually drown. I guess "dollars" are real flotation devices even when misused. :-)

I am concerned about this contract; personally because I am a retired veteran, and also because it seems to be the follow on to a project 4 -5 years ago that attempted to replace VistA with proprietary off the shelf products. Sorry I don't have a reference at hand but I'm sure you can Google it. The attempt was ill formed and failed miserably after lots of money was spent.

Is there an effort somewhere within the VA to get out of the software development business?

Apologies to those who are not like this but is there some idiot MBA thinking on short a term basis that they can save lots of money by getting rid of those useless programmers and IT staff. I mean, isn't outsourcing the best idea in business the past few years?

I do not believe it is a conscious effort to replace VistA with commercial software. I believe it is a (or group of) clueless business people that THINK they are doing the right thing.

An educational approach is best used. Let's find out who is involved in this drive to change and let them know "why" that this is unacceptable. Simply, let's find a key person and offer to make them the hero of saving VistA and the VA healthcare IT system.

Those inside the VA should start providing names and email addresses of these people so we can contact them directly in a letter writing campaign.

Regards,
Tim

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