When VISTA projects fail, it is almost always for one reason - a gross underestimation of the complexity involved.

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As large government organizations go, the Veterans Affairs Department has been an example of what to do and what not to do for large enterprise technology deployments.

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Government lags behind private sector because of a lack of central operational authority, Baker tells summit.

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Veterans Affairs physician-researcher Dr. Michael J. Fine has received the 2011 John M. Eisenberg Award for Career Achievement in Research from the Society of General Internal Medicine.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have launched their fourth virtual lifetime electronic record (VLER) data sharing pilot in Spokane, Wash., the latest in a program aimed at testing the exchange of patient information over the nationwide health information network (NHIN).

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Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a desktop genome analyzer.

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Critical advances in global health are not possible without strong leadership and support from the United States, and for this reason, I have sponsored H.R. 2144, the 21st Century Global Health Technology Act.

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Two years later, Baker said at a recent industry event, the [Department of Veterans Affairs] has made progress.

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The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are weeks away from agreement on a common electronic health record, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told a congressional panel Feb. 17.

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The Veterans Affairs Department has started a pilot to share patient records between the Richmond VA Medical Center and MedVirginia, a central Virginia health information exchange, which expands the virtual lifetime electronic record (VLER) program. 

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