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The Best And Worst In Federal IT, 2010 Edition.  NextGov (12/30, Sternstein) asked, “What were the best federal IT initiatives of 2010? According to industry officials,” one was a move by the Veterans Affairs Department “toward open source software for sharing veterans’ health records.” After noting that VA’s “current e-records system, Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), is based on a 1996 model for information exchange,” NextGov pointed out that in “August, the department issued a request for information on the concept of opening VistA coding to permit tweaks and enhancements, a step in line” with Industry Advisory Council “guidance…delivered to VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker.”