Veterans Affairs CIO Steps Down

With the resignation of Veterans Affairs CIO Robert McFarland, one has to wonder the impact on the development of critical VA technology programs, most notably those in the area of eHealth and electronic patient records.  McFarland, who was tasked with consolidating all of the VA's IT budget within the CIO's office, reportedly left due to a dissastifaction with the pace in which the VA was moving forward on its IT re-organization.

McFarland, a former Dell executive, was brought into the VA to introduce industry best practices to an organization that recently invested $342 million into an ERP system that was never launched. 

With an influx of veterans as result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- we should all focus on how an organizational dogfight within the IT circles of the VA affects the real-world treatment of our veterans.

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