COVID-19

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Safeguarding public health and managing care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the abrupt shift to a remote workforce, has fostered the development of cybersecurity best practices at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

During the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, the U.S. was heavily reliant on providers in Asia for things like personal protective equipment as it had little to no manufacturing capability for these items.

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• Health care

Digital services leaders quickly pivoted to develop tools that better serve veterans during the pandemic.

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The NIH institute serves a critical role in supporting researchers studying COVID-19.

Federal IT leaders stressed the importance of making IT modernization and investment an integral part of agencies’ missions and called for increases to the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) in order to meet new demands in telework and delivery of government services.

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• Health IT

Looking ahead to the future of American health care.

Leaders from the National Institutes of Health and Health and Human Services said last week at GoCIO Media & Research's Digital Health Modernization virtual event that their agencies have increased the openness and availability of public health data, especially as a means of accelerating health IT development and pandemic response. 

Lawmakers and public health experts are pushing for greater standardization of health data to improve public health response efforts and research outcomes.

COVID-19 has caused shutdowns and isolation, increasing mental health distress for many Americans and making it difficult to access in-person treatment for mental health disorders.

If one good thing came of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the expansion of telehealth and digital health services.

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The Department of Homeland Security is leading research efforts to assist, inform and prepare the public to respond to COVID-19.