Lucas123 writes "According to a Computerworld story, a relatively simple breakdown in communications lead to a day-long systems outage within the VA's medical centers and resulted in the government having to nix 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."" Link to Original Source
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