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 Republican 
Steve Buyer,
the committee chairman, said in a written statement.

My understanding is that overly centralized management of IT in the VA has 
(almost?)
always been the biggest source of "poor service to veterans, inefficiency and 
wasted tax
dollars". Has that changed or is this more of the same?

>http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/822736131.html?MAC=995cfe7284bceb318e9a5098a997569e&did=822736131&FMT=FT&FMTS=FT&date=Apr+15%2C+2005&author=STEPHEN+NOHLGREN&printformat=&desc=VA+project+funding+hits+hurdle+in+House
>--
>Nancy Anthracite

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Jim Self
Systems Architect, Lead Developer
VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis
(http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself)


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