VA will ask for more money for modernization, Shulkin says

Fedscoop: The Department of Veterans Affairs will need more money for IT modernization than proposed in the administration’s budget request for fiscal 2018, Secretary David Shulkin said.

IT modernization is the only area of several prioritized in VA’s proposed 2018 budget for which it will ask for additional money, Shulkin said Wednesday in a press conference at the White House.

In prior speaking engagements, Shulkin has said he will make a decision before July for the future of the VA’s electronic health record system, the Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture or VistA.

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