Ed Meagher

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Time for VA to admit the EHR system is a failure, revert back to VistA

Ed Meagher, a former deputy chief information officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says the evidence is clear that the new electronic health…

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Part 2: What VA can do to fix the doomed $16B (and counting) Electronic Health Record modernization

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Why VA’s $16B (and counting) Electronic Health Record Modernization is doomed

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FILE - In this April 2, 2015, file photo, a visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif. The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported Saturday, June 20, 2015, online ahead of its Sunday editions. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

In abandoning VistA, VA faces culture change that’s ‘orders of magnitude bigger’ than expected

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Ed Meagher, Husky Elf, Operation Covert Santa

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In Depth Show Blog – December 4, 2013

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DoD, VA’s health IT efforts grow out of leadership, necessity

The agencies soon will issue solicitations that will take them one step closer to deploying integrated electronic health records for service members, veterans…

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As Kundra leaves, who will reform federal IT?

Vivek Kundra, the federal government\’s first chief information officer, plans to step down. Who will follow and what will be most at risk? We ask Ed Meagher,…

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Bring your own telework tools

The federal government could soon pay a $2,000 subsidy to federal employees who buy their own mobile devices.

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