Veterans Affairs on course to top agency health IT spending

Federal Times: The Department of Veterans Affairs is on course to be the top agency for government health IT spending in the next five years, according to a new market forecast from DelTek. The Department of Health and Human Services currently leads in IT spend, but the completed deployment of the Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace will curtail some of that spending just as the VA begins to ramp up.

“Growth in the federal health IT market is due predominantly to investments at VA and [Department of Defense] for new [electronic health records] and the associated network and other infrastructure upgrades,” the report said.

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