From “Impossible” to “Done.” In an extremely significant and groundbreaking accomplishment, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record system called “VistA” will have been completely migrated to the cloud by July 2024. Moving all of VA’s VistA to the cloud was deemed nearly impossible when the first of VistA’s 130+ on-premises instances moved to VA’s Enterprise Cloud in 2019. By July 2024, it will be done…
Recommended Next Steps:
- In July, VA should celebrate this VistA cloud migration milestone by recognizing the leadership, persistence, patience, and OIT/VHA collaboration that enabled this achievement (perhaps at the VA Texas Valley Coastal Bend Healthcare System, where it began in June 2019.) VA should reward all the government civilians who contributed to this successful outcome through their application of managerial, technical, organizational, and people skills.
- Recommit…
Source: VA’s VistA Cloud Migration is Poised to Transform Healthcare for Veterans. By Bill James, March 22, 2024.
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