“For the Department of Veterans Affairs, it might be easier to say what the agency is not modernizing right now.”
“Jack Galvin, associate deputy assistant secretary of Office of Information and Technology at the VA, said the new electronic health record is days away from going live in Spokane, Washington, through a partnership with the Defense Department and Cerner. VA upgraded its supply chain management system in August, and this quarter the department is modernizing its financial management system.”
“Nevertheless, what the pandemic did was underscore the need for scalable, on-demand modernization, he said on a panel at FCM Bethesda’s 2020 Tech Summit. The panel moderated by Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller included leaders from agencies undergoing major modernization efforts.”
“’Take the telework environment, for instance. We at any given time pre-COVID had about 45,000 workers in work-from-home status, and that quickly went up to 100,000,’ Galvin said on Federal Monthly Insights – Federal Digital Transformation in a Post-COVID World. ‘We were able to ship 200,000 laptops, but to modernize that experience, instead of just expand what you have, we’re looking at virtual desktop, infrastructure and options there. We have a 5,000-person pilot that we’re investigating, looking for hopefully some clinical and administrative access in the remote environment, that perhaps you could use your own device.’”
“Intelligent provisioning is something VA wants to embrace more in the future, he said, as well as the DevSecOps framework to ensure security is built into applications. The agency is emphasizing a low-code/no-code environment to deliver software functionality up to six times faster; low-code/no-code is a group of visual software development platforms using drag-and-drop components to build applications…” Read the full article here.
Source: Agencies modernizing for a low-code, agile environment – By Amelia Brust, October 27, 2020. Federal News Network.
