• [telecom] Hidden Costs and Flawed Training Plague the V.A.'s Huge S

    From David B. Horvath, CCP@21:1/5 to Monty Solomon on Sun Aug 1 15:24:51 2021
    At 05:30 AM 8/1/2021, "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> wrote:
    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

    Given that this has been a 10 year problem (and reported repeatedly
    over the years), I doubt that blame can be placed on Trump. Nor on Biden.

    https://federalnewsnetwork.com/veterans-affairs/2021/04/va-faces-pivotal-moment-with-ehr-after-months-of-lingering-usability-problems/

    - David

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