“As the Trump administration prepares to launch a controversial program to expand private medical care for veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs is developing a software tool to determine who’s eligible.”
“But the tool is so flawed, according to an independent review obtained by ProPublica, that it threatens to disrupt the health care of about 75,000 veterans every day…”
“The review was conducted by the U.S. Digital Service, an elite group of software developers and designers employed by the White House to help federal agencies improve their technology. The USDS team said the VA should scrap the eligibility tool and start over…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA’s Private Care Program Headed for Tech Trouble, Review Finds – By Isaac Arnsdorf, March 18, 2019. ProPublica.
