Information Systems: Veterans Administration Information Resources Management Is Improving

IMTEC-88-17 Published: Jan 27, 1988. Publicly Released: Jan 27, 1988.

Highlights

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO evaluated the Veterans Administration's (VA) management of information resources, focusing on its progress in: (1) overseeing systems development; (2) reducing data duplication and increasing data sharing; (3) upgrading its telecommunications system; and (4) training users of automatic data processing (ADP) systems.

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Topics

Information Management

Computer matchingCost effectiveness analysisEmployee trainingInformation resources managementInformation systemsSystems designTelecommunicationsVeteransData processingInformation resources