Archives: Adam Patterson

• Workforce

Federal tech executives tout knowledge sharing and organizational reforms crucial for enabling remote work.

• DevSecOps

The agency is focusing on changes in training and culture that foster the adoption of agile development methodologies.

• Digital Services

The agency sees iterative design and user testing as vital for improving VA services and incorporating new technology.

• Data

The agency is thinking through how to modernize while sustaining core functions managed under legacy systems.

• Health IT

There are both promises and challenges in applying breaking technology to federal health IT, noted Rep. Michael Burgess during the Digital Health CXO Tech Forum Tuesday.

• Cybersecurity

The U.S. private sector is a crucial contributor for proactive efforts in national cyber efforts, according to Director of the ODNI National Counterintelligence and Security Center Bill Evanina.

• Data

Agencies are focusing on human-centered design as the guiding principle that will ensure effective use of new health care technology across major agencies.

• Electronic Health Records

Modernizing the Department of Veterans Affairs' expansive and often fragmented health records system is a challenging order that the agency is approaching using best practices from the Defense Department.

• Artificial Intelligence

The Department of Veterans Affairs has laid out a blueprint for advancing artificial intelligence development through a program of data curation and collaboration between private and public research institutions, presented by AI Director Gil Alterovitz at ACT-IAC's Artificial Intelligence Automation Forum Tuesday.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Health IT

The Department of Veterans Affairs manages one of the largest health care networks in the U.S. and is in the midst of a broad-reaching modernization push designed to reform the agency’s full breadth of service lines.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is aiming to overhaul its single 30-year-old core accounting system, as part of a financial systems modernization push that follows a more long-term approach to technical reform.

Changes among agency management may be a precursor for better utilizing talent from private industry.