By Bob Brewin,
07/28/08
Senate appropriators are concerned that centralization of Veterans Affairs Department information technology operations has failed to improve efficiency, according to a report accompanying the fiscal 2009 VA spending bill.
Comment on this article in The Forum.VA restructured its IT operations in April 2007, giving the Office of Information and Technology central decision-making authority. The new structure replaced a highly decentralized system where VA organizations such as the Veterans Health Administration, and even individual medical centers, ran their own IT show.
But the report, released early last week, said members of the Senate Appropriations Committee have "repeatedly heard complaints that VA's Office of Information and Technology has not established standardized policies and procedures for requesting and receiving information technology services, equipment…and has not established a clear organizational structure."
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