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The Department of Veterans is moving its electronic health record system to the open source community.
Two separate incidents at Veterans Affairs result in credit protection services for 1,600 vets
The monthly data breach report from the Veterans Affairs shows risks due to human error are not as bad as they could be.
VA\'s Roger Baker discussed how to advance IT projects amidst uncertain budget times.
Sen. Collins asked GAO to study the current roles and responsibilities of these senior technology managers. This would be the third such study from GAO since 1996, but first since 2005. VA\'s CIO Roger Baker reiterates his call to give CIOs oversight and authority of their IT budget.
Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said he wants to move toward giving feds a subsidy - of say, $2,000 - to purchase their own devices to work on.
The administration\'s IT agenda for fiscal 2012 will include new tools to combat cyber threats as well as major overhauls to how agencies manage their systems. Agency CIOs say agility will be important moving forward.
VA CIO Roger Baker says Government IT systems are at increased risk to inside and outside threats because many agencies don\'t have a centralized budget or operational authority over their IT systems.
Government IT systems are at increased risk to inside and outside threats because departments lack centralized budget and operational authority over their IT systems, says Roger Baker.
OMB mandated departments implement continuous monitoring of their cyber networks by 2012. Part of meeting that goal is understanding what hardware and software currently reside on the computing backbone.
The Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday that a new automated system has cut the backlog of education benefit claims under the new Post-9/11 GI bill and sped up the process of delivering payments to students. VA is using an agile technology development approach to make changes easier and faster.
The agency\'s monthly security report to Congress continues to show a decreasing severity of data breaches.
Assistant secretary Baker said he can\'t let doctors store veterans\' data on unsecured systems in the cloud. But Baker said he wants to figure out how to solve this problem because the ability to access data anywhere, anytime is necessary. VA shutdown facilities usage of common commercial cloud applications.
The Veterans Affairs Department continues to find rogue instances of data storage on unapproved systems in the cloud. Roger Baker, VA’s assistant secretary in the Office of Information and Technology and chief information officer, said…