Former Navy officer Fred Mingo has been appointed by the Veterans Health Administration to serve as the VHA’s deputy program executive for Vista Evolution, a multibillion-dollar, multiyear plan to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Vista EHR system. Mingo previously served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for professional and IT services firm ICF International.
The VistA Evolution Program’s chief goal is achieving seamless interoperability with DoD and other healthcare partners; this goal is supported by clinical goals to enhance VistA to support a patient-centric, team-based healthcare delivery model, and technical goals to establish a robust Information Technology (IT) architecture to underpin current usage and future innovation, including a commercial system that the Defense Department is working on deploying.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has selected ASM Research, a division of Accenture for a three-year $162 million contract to modernize the VistA EHR. ASM Research will provide software development, technical architecture and training to improve data sharing interoperability for VA clinicians. The project is slated under the VA’s five-year, $12 billion Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology contract vehicle.
