The Veterans Affairs Department kicked off its pilot test of Apple iPads on Oct. 1 and experienced its first theft of one of the tablet computers the next day, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker reported in his monthly press call Wednesday morning. Read More »

Tablet computers could transform the way the Veterans Affairs Department delivers medical care with evidence-based medicine that supports the best clinical practices, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker predicted Wednesday in his monthly media briefing. Read More »

IT firm Harris Corp. has won a five-year, $54.9 million contract from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to integrate a commercial surgical workflow management system into the VA's massive health IT infrastructure. Read More »

Many commentators, myself included, point to open source as being a route to open innovation in software...Collaboration with others is not easy, but there are a few tricks that you can employ in order to accelerate innovation through open source software. Read More »

Open Access Week starts on Monday. Read More »

Wireless mobile technologies have great potential to improve global health. But the challenges facing the implementation of mobile health IT worldwide are different than those faced by the efforts to use health IT in the U.S. to transform patient outcomes. Read More »

We propose the usage of open source technologies to reduce the cost and increase the efficiency [of healthcare in India]. Instead of investing money in expensive proprietary licenses, we should invest in building skills around open source tools because that ensures the creation of jobs and investments within the local economy. Read More »

Roger Baker, Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology for the Department of Veterans Affairs receives his upgraded VIP Underground Railroad Card from Tom Munnecke. Peter L. Levin, Senior Advisor and Chief Technical Officer for the VA, looks on... Read More »

Imagine your marching orders are to link networking and telepresence across a wide array of hardware platforms and software applications to enable telemedicine with both voice and visual capabilities...into the remotest battlefield regions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well, that’s only part of what LTC William Geesey and The U.S. Army’s Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) unit are doing right now. Read More »

I’m still a big believer in open source software, but I don’t want to see libraries choosing software solely for philosophical reasons. Given the investment of time that some technology projects require, it’s imperative that libraries choose the best tool for the job based on their specific requirements and limitations. Read More »