Re: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-19 Thread Adrian Midgley
That is interesting. St Petersburg is adjacent to Largo, which is famous for implementing the city IT infrastructure on Linux, at significantly lower cost than neighbours. It is also near the scene of some debacle in a previous attempt to replace VistA with a more profitable system, is it not?

Re: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Jim Self
The quote in the article from Steve Buyer must be distressing to anyone who remembers anything about the origins and development of VistA: Information technology at (the) VA is not centrally managed, and the results are poor service to veterans, inefficiency and wasted tax dollars, Indiana

Re: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Bain Henderson
CONCUR! Health care, like politics, is best delivered locally. - Bain At 05:21 PM 4/18/2005, you wrote: The quote in the article from Steve Buyer must be distressing to anyone who remembers anything about the origins and development of VistA: Information technology at (the) VA is not centrally

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Francis . Gilbert
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bain Henderson Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 3:07 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes CONCUR! Health care, like politics, is best

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Cameron Schlehuber
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bain Henderson Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 3:07 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes CONCUR! Health care, like politics, is best delivered locally. - Bain

Re: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Dan
Just like everything else, IT goes in circles. It used to be all server-based, then we had thin/thick clients, now we're heading back to server-based. In another 10 years we'll be doing client-based stuff again. At 05:21 PM 4/18/2005, Jim wrote: The quote in the article from Steve Buyer must

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread A. Forrey
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes CONCUR! Health care, like politics, is best delivered locally. - Bain At 05:21 PM 4/18/2005, you wrote: The quote in the article from Steve Buyer must be distressing to anyone who remembers anything about

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes

2005-04-18 Thread Gordon Moreshead
PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] VA project funding hits hurdle in House - St. Pete TImes I've often wondered why things happened the way they did with DHCP and VistA, politics being what it is. Looking at the timeline and the major political players