“It is easy to say “I told you so” after the fact of some debacle. The outcome is known, and the causes of the debacle are right there in front of you like the skid marks of a car leading to the wreckage against a wall…”
“But I, and many knowledgeable folks, can predict with a very high degree of certainty that a debacle will occur based on the Veterans Affairs Department’s recent decision to proceed with its highly unusual, sole source, noncompetitive, multi-billions-of-dollars award of a contract to Cerner for a replacement electronic health record (EHR) for its current [Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture] system.”
“The knowledgeable folks I refer to are the experts who built, evolved and maintained VistA for the VA over the past 25 years. They are also the doctors and…”
“There are many other predictors of this impending debacle that are widely known throughout the VA, but no one has asked anyone knowledgeable inside the VA about them. There has never been an honest, impartial…” Read the full article here.
Source: Letter to the Editor: Let the record show I told you so about VA – By Edward Francis Meagher, May 31, 2018. Federal News Radio.
