LaVerne Council

Education pushes back, OPM opens up during FITARA hearing

A panel of former federal technology executives offered the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations suggestions for improving…

Reporter's Notebook

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CIO reporting, working capital funds remain outliers in agency IT modernization progress

Congress

Public, private sector CIOs face uphill climb to trusted partner status

Ask the CIO

To be successful, new VA CIO must listen, do research and be humble

Reporter's Notebook

Exclusive

How CIOs can be trusted leaders of transformation

Federal Insights

VA names Kadakia as new head of cybersecurity

People

Lawmakers dispute DoD, VA’s claims of health record interoperability

Technology

VA watchdogs: Results, responsibility needed for agency IT updates

Management

GSA brings in new deputy CIO; Air Force, VA promote from within

Reporter's Notebook

VA says it’s met congressional mandate to make its health records interoperable with DoD

Technology

Clearer message needed on what cloud can do for VA

Cloud Computing

VA patient scheduling pilot rolling out in April

The Department of Veterans Affairs is rolling out a scheduling pilot program to make it easier for veterans to get access to medical care. The pilot was…

Technology

VA may abandon VistA as its long-term electronic health record solution

VA has paused development on “VistA Evolution,” the program it’s been using for the last several years to modernize its existing electronic health records…

Technology

VA sets goal of eliminating cyber material weaknesses by 2017

Cybersecurity

LaVerne Council, the assistant secretary of the Office of Information and Technology and chief information officer at VA, said the new enterprise cybersecurity team has a strategy to fix all 30 material weaknesses highlighted annually for much of the last 17 years by auditors.