Author Archive

Roger Baker

Roger Baker was the Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Information and Technology from 2009 to 2013. Since leaving VA, he has consulted for multiple electronic health record and integrator firms doing business with the agency, including Cerner.
Acquisition

Why VA must keep Vista healthy

The moratorium on further Vista investment put in place three years ago creates major strategic issues for the Department of Veterans Affairs as the agency looks to put Cerner's commercial electronic health record system in place.

  • By Roger Baker
Acquisition

How VA can succeed with its EHR mega-program

The former CIO of the Department of Veterans Affairs offers some ideas for course correction in the agency's flagging $20 billion–plus Electronic Health Records Modernization program.

  • By Roger Baker
Modernization

Why VA's electronic health record mega-project is failing

The agency's former top technology official explains how management problems, reliance on outmoded development methodology and lack of customer buy-in are combining to sink (for now) a critical modernization project at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

  • By Roger Baker
Digital Government

Open source is so much more than free code

The former Department of Veterans Affairs CIO shows how successful development and use of open source software requires collaboration, transparency and a commitment to management.

  • By Roger Baker
People

How CIOs can use FITARA to get away from waterfall

The law’s certification and approval provisions empower CIOs to end outdated software development projects, says Agilex’s Roger Baker.

  • By Roger Baker