Anatomy of the VA's IT Meltdown 137
Lucas123 writes "According to a Computerworld story, a relatively simple breakdown in communications led to a day-long systems outage within the VA's medical centers. The ultimate result of the outage: the cancellation of a project to centralize IT systems at more than 150 medical facilities into four regional data processing centers. The shutdown 'left months of work to recover data to update the medical records of thousands of veterans. The procedural failure also exposed a common problem in IT transformation efforts: Fault lines appear when management reporting shifts from local to regional.'"
Oh, great. (Score:3, Funny)
(of course, it would be a first for 'em... even if it's the "wrong" Vista we're talking here).
I see the problem (Score:4, Funny)
There clearly is just not enough synergy..
Doesn't VA own slashdot? (Score:2, Funny)
+1 C'mon Editors (Score:5, Funny)
1. Looks at title: omg! Slashdot's parent company had an IT meltdown! ha-ha! But waitaminute
2. Looks at icon: a
3. Looks at summary: and
4. Looks at icon: I remember that! It means
5. Looks into the inner recesses of my mind:
7. Looks at lightbulb over head: of course! There *is* no VA Linux! It's Sourceforge, Inc now! But that must mean
6. Looks at summary:
Gee thanks, Zonk, just what I needed before going to sleep. Now I'll dream of the Queen in Virginia melting down medical computers for Slashdot's open source overlords. Again.
Last thing I needed