Department of Veterans Affairs

• HealthCast

Leaders from health agencies across government are progressing in applications for the technology.

• 5G
• Cybersecurity

With the rise of 5G networks, interoperable EHRs and connected medical devices, security is paramount.

• Data

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

• Data
• Health IT

Health care innovation in 2020 and beyond demonstrates the rapidly increasing value of data in developing better solutions and giving patients greater access to care and freedom in finding the care that fits them best.

• Digital Services

The government needs to provide products and digital services that allow users to easily accomplish what they need to do, according to experts from the U.S. Digital Services discussing tech development challenges and ways to mitigate issues before they arise using human-centered design.

• 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.

• Cybersecurity

As the federal government navigates an evolving cyber-threat landscape, health agency officials are increasing their attention toward expanding workforce recruitment, training and retention efforts to better safeguard personal health information.

• 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.

• CyberCast

How the nation's largest health care provider manages security.

• 5G

With ongoing advances in mobile technology, the Department of Veterans Affairs is looking into implementing new uses of augmented reality across the agency.