15 Quotes by Karen Evans

If it's useful and really needed, it will sustain itself.

We are considering making the service provider that is not meeting the agency's needs bear the cost. We need clear language in the service-level agreements, so providers and agency customers know what is expected of them.

We want to look at whether these functions such as financial management are core to the agencies' mission, or should they spend money to get data from a shared service provider. We really want people to look at this, and we will work with them as they move forward.

What are the results and how much money have we saved? ... What are we getting for the $65 billion the taxpayers have entrusted us with?

Do we have all of this worked out? The answer is no.

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

This just seemed like the next step to go, glad to be able to do it. Serve my country and serve our fellow people in Louisiana.

There's a lot of questions out there that we still need to answer.

As we move forward, we will evaluate possibilities for further collaboration as appropriate, ... Investments within the federal government make up an important segment of the national health IT infrastructure.