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- Doubling of VA's IT budget could tip the market
- Doubling of VA's IT budget could tip the marketHow's it going to go... this might be a clueMcKesson is number 3 of the top 100 Recipients of Federal Contract Awards for FY 2008 1Q. (http://tinyurl.com/27sr74)RE: Doubling of VA's IT budget could tip the marketThanks for the report.Good ClueI don't want...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
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- Open source can save your life
- don't mix OSS with socialized medicineOSS is for the all the people, socialized medicine is demanded only by a small minority of craizy liberals.VA health careSince 2001, the VA has had remarkable bipartisan support for just about all the funding they needed or could handle. When the gravy train...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Stop the lies about comparative effectiveness
- Stop the lies about comparative effectivenessDoesn't belong on ZDNetI'm not sure why this column even belongs on ZDNet. The political point presented seems to be that somehow we are not collecting enough medical data or that throwing my tax dollars at this "problem" using some vague, unplanned database and decision...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Health care is rationed and people die
- Health care is rationed and people dieWrong approachThe health care provisions in the current "stimulus" package are a prescription for the elimination of the aged and no amount of "data"worship can change that fact. What's next "Soylent Green"?Government Run Health Care == VA HospitalsWant to see how government mandated...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-15
- Under worm attack, US Army bans USB drives
- Under worm attack, US Army bans USB drivesIf our Army is under attack......isn't that war?Um...good luck on that!!Do they not realize that the cost of lost productivity from completely un-networking and banning shared media FAR outweighs the cost of security s/w and remediation from time to time? Ever hear...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?
- Britain's national plan to bring order and interoperability to the patient records and operations of the national health service was going to cost about £1.2bn and be an enormous business and political success by early 1998. Ten years later it's widely expected to be a continuing £13bn pound...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Using Virtualization and ZXTM VA, YottaServe Offers Accelerated "Hosting Without the Toasting" in a Web 2.0 World
- Many of the customer applications that YottaServe hosted were resource intensive, with limited scalability and poor performance under load. YottaServe desperately needed a solution that could improve the performance and capacity of these applications, without increasing their expenditure on hardware. The company set to work looking for a solution that...
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- How healthy is John McCain?
- How healthy is John McCain?Doesn't matter anyway.The question you should ask is how cranky are his policies and the viewpoints of his vice president. After all that person will step in if John keels over. Besides you should have blogged on his viewpoints on tech to make it related.The problem...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- What is the U.S. doing about security?
- What is the U.S. doing about security?NateI enjoy your posts and the obvious expertise you bring to them. Even though these cards are a bad security idea, this is but a small piece of the border security pie. The total budgets you are referencing cover a lot more...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- Tricare scandal shows value of VA system
- Tricare scandal shows value of VA systemDo you suffer with diassociative personality?In the article prior to this one VA health care is the equivelent to being treated like dirt. In this one it is superior to TriCare. How do you justify these two different views in your own...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Is Congress looking at the right VA scandal?
- Is Congress looking at the right VA scandal?Wow!Officers are treated differently when they are in too! This classless society you dream of is called socialism. Look how well that works! As a Disabled American Veteran, noncommishioned, I have to say if what you propose raises my taxes...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- How good is the VA?
- The Best Care Anywhere. That's the headline the Washington Monthly gave its 2005 feature on the Veterans Administration, in a story written by Phillip Longman. Much of the controversy generated by my first posts on this subject involved that question. Just...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?
- Roger Maduro right doesn't look like a hero. Like most heroes he never sought the status, just tried to do right and shine a light on what works. What works, he thinks is VistA, and the Veterans Administration system that computer code supports. In shining the light...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- News to know: Microsoft's new language; Yahoo saga; Apple; Vulnerability counts
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, ‘D’ Larry Dignan: Yahoo's conundrum: White knights are hard to find Dan Farber: Mitch Kapor: Microsoft+Yahoo, major integration challenge David Morgenstern: Will Microsoft support Windows on Macs?...
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Parsing+the+federal+budget%3A+The+tech+highlights
- Parsing+the+federal+budget%3A+The+tech+highlightsI agree...Not so much as far as the costs are concerned, but in the conditions of the VA hospitals.They are a pathetic slap in the face of the people who have served this country.Boost in tax revenue?Yup, it sure did boost tax revenue, that would explain how we went from...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Doubling of VA's IT budget could tip the market
- The fiscal 2007 IT budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs was about $1.2 billion. The proposed budget for fiscal 2009, which starts in October, is $2.4 billion. That's a lot of IT. That should be very good news for open source. The VA's...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Parsing the federal budget: The tech highlights
- President Bush unveiled his $3.1 trillion--yes trillion--fiscal 2009 budget and there are a lot of technology highlights to go around. Whether this budget ever gets approved anywhere near its current state remains to be seen (fiscal 2008's budget isn't official), but directionally there are some key highlights....
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- The federal budget is finally digital
- At 2,200 pages, how many people actually read the whole federal budget the president sends to Congress each year? Definitely not enough to pay for the cost of printing. And more importantly, how can citizens search through it for programs on interest when it's only in print? OK, enough is...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- IT Project Management
- View Available Dates and LocationsLearn the fundamentals and best practices of project management methodology as applied to IT initiatives, and practice and master the skills you need to deliver IT projects on time, within budget, and to specification. Examine all aspects of IT projects, including hardware, software,...
- Training 2008-01-01
- Congress and the Feds should clean up their own act
- Congress and the Feds should clean up their own actI agreeI read about this on someone else's blog or off the ZDnet news feed today and I had the same opinions as you about it except the socks thing never crossed my mind though. This is grandstanding to be...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
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