“… The Office of Information and Technology (OIT) is aggressively pursuing modernization—closing a major national data center, relocating 70 Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) databases, migrating VistA databases to a fully virtualized Linux platform, and developing a proof of concept of VistA in the VA enterprise cloud.”
“What does all this mean for Veterans? OIT is modernizing to meet Veteran needs and working behind the scenes to support VA operations. By moving away from older legacy and proprietary hardware, facilitating vital network connections even as IT tools change, ensuring ample data storage capacity, and seeking new IT efficiencies, OIT is aligning its IT systems to better support the Veterans they serve.”
“Constant connectivity and ready access to data do not happen automatically. Across VA, OIT enables the hosting and sharing of the immense amount of information required to provide care and services to Veterans. For example, OIT connects sophisticated medical devices used to perform electrocardiography (EKG), mammography, and other testing to the network so that health care providers can access results. OIT also works with providers to design interfaces to enable critical functions like the documentation and retrieval of doctors’ orders and call-in medication refill requests.”
“Given how central IT functionality is to VA operations…” Read the full press release here.
Source: OIT Aggressively Pursuing Modernization of VA Network – August 28, 2019. VA OIT.
