COVID-19

• GovCast

The department has been recognized this year for successes in cloud and telework.

The ongoing electronic health records collaboration between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Health Agency is laying the groundwork for improvements in patient care, as well as showing promising signs to help advance public health across the nation as a whole.

• HealthCast

The pandemic has caused a paradigm shift in biotech manufacturing and the global supply chain.

• HealthCast

Modern technology has the power to overcome clinical trial participation challenges.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is developing an agency-encompassing data strategy that will be used to guide both its health IT and patient care reforms.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the need for major investments in digital health services and technology across the country, including telehealth and broadband infrastructure — particularly in rural communities.

Since the onset of public health concerns surrounding the pandemic in late March, schools nationwide pivoted their operations to support modified environments like virtual classes to accommodate public health directives.

• HealthCast

Technology plays a critical role in addressing significant mental health challenges for cancer patients during the pandemic.

The VA is using its ongoing health care modernization to improve care during COVID-19 as well as set the stage for assisting vaccine availability that will help close the pandemic.

The Army’s Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) has applied operational telemedicine to battlefields long before COVID-19 became a national issue.

As the Food and Drug Administration prepares for COVID-19 vaccine authorizations and approvals as a result of the Department of Health and Human Services' Operation Warp Speed clinical trials, the agency is also focused on strengthening surveillance efforts on the vaccine's long-term safety.

As the Department of Veterans Affairs launched full implementation of its new electronic health record over the weekend, the stressors and demands of COVID-19 appear to have helped VA understand critical modernization priorities.