Roger Baker, chief information officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, plans to step down from his position after nearly four years, Dorobekinsider reports. Baker, confirmed by the Senate in May 2009,
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The Department of Veterans Affairs will award up to $3 million in cash prizes to developers who can make a scheduling module compatible with the VA’s electronic health records system, Federal News
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Veterans Affairs Chief Information Officer Roger Baker recently said he does not have the authority to determine if data plans for the VA’s bring-your-own-device strategy can be reimbursed, Fierce Government IT reports.
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New joint health information exchanges between the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs will soon go live nationwide, Federal Times reports. According to Nicole Blake Johnson’s report, this step is part of
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The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments’ health records system will be implemented at two joint facilities by 2014 but exclude certain applications, Molly Bernhart Walker of Fierce Government IT reports. Defense Secretary
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The House Appropriations Committee has proposed a budget authorizing a 6.5 percent increase in the information technology budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs, reports Alice Lipowicz for Federal Computer Week. The
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The Department of Veterans Affairs will tap the National Archives and Records Administration to help the VA in its migration from a paper to paperless claims process, NextGov reports. VA Chief Information
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For Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Information Officer Roger Baker, the word “reform,†is nothing new. Writing in a blog post on CIO.gov to mark six months since the federal government launched
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President Obama proposed an IT budget of $3.3 billion for the VA Department for the fiscal year of 2011. Now the Senate panel has decided to add another 1% ($30 million) for
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Roger Baker is the Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology for the Department of Veterans Affairs. President Obama nominated him for this position and it was confirmed by the Senate this past
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