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A 40-year 'conspiracy' at the VA; The Department of Veterans Affairs built perhaps the most important medical computer system in history
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Tue, 21 March 2017 12:47 |
Anne & Lynn Wheel
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A 40-year 'conspiracy' at the VA; The Department of Veterans Affairs
built perhaps the most important medical computer system in history. Now
it's about to spend billions to throw it away.
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/03/vista-computer- history-va-conspiracy-000367
Its birth occurred in 1977, far back in the era of paper medical
records, with a pair of computer nerds from the National Bureau of
Standards. Ted O'Neill and Marty Johnson had helped standardize a
computer language, originally developed at Massachusetts General
Hospital, called MUMPS, and the two men were hired by the VA to see
whether MUMPS could be the basis of a new computer system connecting the
VA's hospitals. Computerizing the one-on-one art of medical care seemed
like a sacrilege at the time, but the VA, struggling with casualties of
the Vietnam War, was underfunded, disorganized and needed all the help
it could get.
.... snip ...
there have been a whole slew of failed billion dollar "modernization"
efforts over the decades ... all part of "success of failure" culture
permeating the federal government
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04 /the-success-of-failure/24107/
recent posts mentioning talking to lead VA staffer on the hill about the
medical computer system:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#39 Failure as a Way of Life; The logic of lost wars and military-industrial boondoggles
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#107 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#12 Why a Single-Payer Health Care System is Inevitable
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#40 Misc. Success of Failure
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#76 GLBA & Glass-Steagall
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#71 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
"Success of Failure" posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failure
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