Federal health IT leaders are focusing on data strategy and interoperability, improved customer experience and cybersecurity as their top priorities throughout the rest of 2022… Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) CIO Karl Mathias
For many years the Department of Veterans Affairs has worked to make it easier for veterans to access VA services. Now the department is two months into an effort to make it easier for vendors
Fast Facts For over a decade, VA has tried with little success to implement a framework for managing and overseeing how it purchases goods and services. We added VA acquisition management to our High Risk
The Senate Special Committee on Aging looked into the accessibility of federal technology, specifically for seniors and individuals with disabilities, as well as older and disabled veterans. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), the committee’s chairman, said
President Biden’s recent executive order on diversity, equity, inclusion and access calls on federal agencies “to cultivate a workforce that draws from the full diversity of the nation.” Department of Veterans Affairs Principal Deputy Assistant
Federal experts today agreed that while the FITARA Scorecard serves as a useful tool for agencies to track IT-related performance, many agencies struggle with funding to make meaningful progress on some FITARA grading categories. During
The recently passed Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act came with much praise in the veteran and federal community for its expansion of medical coverage to former military service members exposed to toxins during
Responsibilities: You will not be solely responsible for these areas, but rather working as part of a cross-functional team equipped with the knowledge and authority to contribute across the organization. Contract Management Review government contracts
Only two weeks after his Senate confirmation, newly appointed Undersecretary for Health Shereef Elnahal is eyeing a continued effort to combat COVID-19, recruit and retain a health care workforce, modernize electronic health records and promote
The Department of Veterans Affairs had a significant outage within Cerner’s electronic health records system on Thursday, due to a corrupted patient database that could have caused major harm to VA patients due to the
