Hidden Costs and Flawed Training Plague the V.A.'s Huge Software
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A $16 billion effort to modernize health records at the Department of
Veterans Affairs ran into major problems in its first installation,
two watchdog reports say.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/us/va-health-software-problems.html
***** Moderator's Note *****
Moderators are supposed to be neutral. I try to be objective.
But this report burns my butt, and tha's puttig it mildly. There is
$16 Billion dollars of the taxpayer's money gone and nothing to show
for it.
I served in Vietnam. There are a lot of Vietnam veterans committing
suicide, and even more of us wasting away from the "side-effects" of
toxic chemicals like Agent Orange. They need help, not brazenly
ill-designed and obviously incompetently written software that you and
I are paying for.
The Trump administration wrote the checks. If anyone wanted concrete
evidence that the ex-president is a "Useful idiot" (Vladimir Putin's
quote) suited only to respond to the flattery of his sycophants and
the machinations of corporate hucksters, this is it.
That, of course, is my personal opinion. Now, I'll go back to being
neutral again.
Bill Horne
Moderator
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