Allison Ling

The Department of Veterans Affairs is using hackathons to better tie technical developments to health care outcomes. 

As part of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ renewed focus on caring for America’s most vulnerable retired service members, the agency has announced two programs dedicated to expanding access to emergency mental health services and ending veteran homelessness.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is aiming to reach a significant cloud migration landmark by 2024, marking an effective halfway point of its transition to full cloud integration.

The Department of Health and Human Services has witnessed a significant spike in cyberattacks since the pandemic began, but has also experienced a change in how the agency prioritizes cybersecurity in its pandemic response efforts. 

As the Defense Health Agency continues to undergo organizational and technological changes, especially amid recent challenges around COVID-19, the agency is looking to further strengthen its resiliency to both gradual and sudden disruptions.

As federal agencies shift data and IT operations to the cloud, some are exploring new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotic process automation to track and control cloud spending.

As the U.S. continues to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the National Institutes of Health has doubled down on artificial intelligence technologies and multi-institute research programs to rapidly understand how the disease affects people.

Federal leaders are applying advanced analytics processes on large swaths of data using artificial intelligence in order to address public health matters like combatting fraud, waste and abuse and also the current COVID-19 pandemic.

The Department of Health and Human Services has streamlined COVID-19 data reporting to securely collect, analyze and share health information across the country and to inform decision-makers guiding the nation’s pandemic response.

The Defense Health Management Systems is centralizing data from disparate sources with a cloud solution, preparing its data assets for greater usability to improve health care delivery across the Military Health System.

A Department of Justice and General Services Administration 18F collaboration led to the launch of a new portal this summer for the public to more easily report civil rights violations.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is continuing to prioritize health records consolidation and data analytics projects during the pandemic, agency officials said during an ATARC Data Analytics Working Group event.