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EPA CISO Kelley says recent health IT developments inspired his move to Leidos

Fedscoop: It turns out the thing that made Sean Kelley want to leave the federal government is the same thing that got him into it in the first place: health care.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief information security officer announced recently he was leaving for a position with defense contractor Leidos after serving eight months on the job.

Kelley, a former IT executive at the Department of Veterans Affairs, said recent developments in health care IT — including the VA’s June decision to procure an electronic health records system similar to the Defense Department’s based in software created by Cerner — led him to explore the possibility of venturing to the private sector and Leidos, the prime contractor on the DOD’s EHR contract.

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