“… “The feeling was that we could do more,” said Dominic Cussatt, principal deputy assistant secretary and deputy CIO at VA, at the Breakfast with the Govpreneur April 9. “We’re the stewards of all this data, and we do very carefully protect it through our cybersecurity measures. In a safe and measured way, we wanted to see what we could do to leverage the power of this data and not always focus on VA as the internal developer of everything that we do…”
“Myklegard added that the focus has been on improving the user experience by encouraging developers to create applications that remove bottlenecks for processing claims and transferring health data. Though claims can currently be submitted online, they’re still being entered into the systems by hand, he said.”
“However, the VA’s interest in speedy delivery cannot happen without an eye on security…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA’s Lighthouse Program Guides Way for IT Transformation – By James Mersol, April 15, 2019. GovernmentCIO.
