VA CTO Peter Levin to leave agency

A second senior technology official is leaving the Veterans Affairs Department. Peter Levin, the department's chief technology officer for the last 3 1/2 years, announced he is resigning, a VA spokeswoman confirmed. The spokeswoman said there are no details at this time about Levin's plans or the date he will leave.

Levin's resignation follows on the heels of VA Assistant Secretary in the Office of Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer Roger Baker's decision to resign last Friday. Jerry Davis, VA's Chief Information Security Officer, also recently left his post to become CIO at the NASA Ames Research Center.

FedScoop first reported Levin's decision to leave. Levin has played a key role in several of VA's biggest external technology initiatives. Levin led the effort to create Blue Button technology for veterans to control and share their electronic health records with medical professionals. VA reported last fall that more than 1 million veterans downloaded their health records using the Blue Button technology...