Govt health IT gets graded

The Department of Veterans Affairs' management of long-term health IT projects gets mixed reviews in a new inspector-general audit, Government Health IT reports, states iHealth Beat.

VA has established adequate IT life cycle guidelines, but the department unevenly enforces those guidelines for managing health IT projects over their lifetime, according to Belinda Finn, VA's assistant inspector-general for audits.

Finn recommended that VA take immediate action to establish management controls to ensure centralised oversight of its IT investments.

Los Angeles-based Projecturf, a developer of software-as-a-service for project and collaboration management for SMEs, has upgraded the firm's namesake offering, reports Social Tech.

According to the firm, version 2.0 of the firm's product includes over 60 new features and enhancements, including a better user interface, new sections for ticketing and bug tracking, better customisation options, and more.

The privately held firm is looking to attract users of Microsoft Project to its offering.

Stand By Soft has released RationalPlan 3.15.4, a strong project management software application developed to assist project managers in creating plans, tracking progress, allocating resources, managing budgets and analysing workload, says PR.com.

The new version comes with a significant increase in its execution speed, more task types, silent install possibility on Windows and some more interface improvements.

RationalPlan has also added new task types. Until now users could handle tasks that have only fixed units for the assigned resources. This means that once resources were assigned to tasks with a certain amount of units, these units were fixed and did not change on other task changes like duration or work.