Roger Baker, VA CIO on Refactoring

We have heard conflicting statements from Roger Baker on refactoring and reuse of legacy VistA code.

• “Our goals are to bring in as many private sector modules as possible and selecting the same thing to run between VA and DOD so that we end up with a single, common electronic health record system,” Roger Baker, VA CIO said in March.
• "The key phrase is single common electronic health system. It's two large systems, and... the intention is to get to a point where there is a single repository for all the data related to an individual' s medical record whether generated in DoD or VA, and I might add through the nationwide health information network." Roger Baker, VA CIO said in July...