VA kicks off project to provide cloud tools to 134,000 medical staff

To stay ahead of doctors and residents who prefer to use Web-based applications rather than government-provided software, the Veterans Affairs Department has launched a project to provide potentially all 134,000 medical personnel with access to commercial collaboration tools hosted in a cloud computing environment.

VA, in a request for information issued to industry last Thursday, indicated it wants to host these collaboration tools in commercial data centers, with the caveat that those data centers must be located in the United States....