Department of Veterans Affairs

• 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.

• GovCast

A leader behind the Healthcare.gov relaunch discusses his company's digital services efforts at the VA.

As an early cloud adopter, GSA has closed 120 data centers, saving the agency approximately $8.5 million annually.

Speaking at the 2019 PSC Tech Trends Conference, VA leaders outlined the agency’s efforts to consolidate technical advances around a singular focus on improving user experience.

The Department of Veterans Affairs recently launched living digital tributes for America’s veterans during a volunteer event aimed at beautifying the grave sites around national cemeteries on the National Day of Volunteering.