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Anatomy of the VA's IT Meltdown

Posted by Zonk on from the use-your-words dept.

Lucas123 writes "According to a Computerworld story, a relatively simple breakdown in communications led to a day-long systems outage within the VA's medical centers. The ultimate result of the outage: the cancellation of a project to centralize IT systems at more than 150 medical facilities into four regional data processing centers. The shutdown 'left months of work to recover data to update the medical records of thousands of veterans. The procedural failure also exposed a common problem in IT transformation efforts: Fault lines appear when management reporting shifts from local to regional.'"

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  1. Re:In other words.... by schwaang · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And Americans want a nationalized health care system? Examine the VA system and I suspect a nationalized health care system will be very similar.

    Oh please. That's like looking at FEMA's response to Katrina and saying "see, you can't expect the gov't to do anything right." It's so Republican to intentionally break government agencies and then use their brokenness as a reason to privatize everything.
  2. Re:Zonk, you retard by Arapahoe+Moe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Um, who the **** else would "the VA" refer to? I mean, besides your terrible examples.

    You're obviously an id10t trooper from Alderaan or something, Captain Dumbass. I mean, Jesus H. Christ. GOD! That's just amazingly stupid ....

  3. Government as usual by LeonardsLiver · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And these are the clowns the dems want to put in charge of healthcare...