Contract to Create VistA Shepherd Goes to Newbie

I just learned, (from a modern healthcare article, of course) that the contract has been awarded to Tiag.

 

At first blush, this news was not concerning. I am only peripherally involved in the VistA community, and there are lots of solid VistA-related contracting companies that I do not know of. It was a little surprising I must admit, I was expecting this to go to Perot Systems (now Dell), or DSS, both of which have deep VistA pedigree. My second guess would have been a big contractor like IBM or CSC.

 

But I have done a little analysis and now I am pretty concerned about this.

 

First I used Google to do a site search for the term “VistA” on the Tiag website. The syntax for that is “site:http://tiag.net VistA”

 

Results... nothing...