VA Wants to Bring Innovation to VistA

Roger Baker, VA's assistant secretary for information and technology and chief information officer, said he will lead an effort to move VistA into the open source community.

Baker's decision to move VistA to open source comes after a working group from IAC/ACT submitted a report on May 4 recommending ten areas where VA could improve the program. The first was to move VistA to an open source platform.