Department of Veterans Affairs

• Cybersecurity
• Data
• Health IT

Federal agencies are collecting massive amounts of health data from patient electronic health records and clinical research trials for new insights, treatments and discoveries.

• GovCast

A pathway to government IT is not always rooted in technology.

Representatives from the Department of Veterans Affairs see great opportunity in an upcoming transfer of the agency's electronic health records from the homegrown VISTA platform to a new database.

• GovCast

The VA's Center for Innovation is focusing on initiatives that implement care and payment innovation.

• Data

The product of two years of ongoing development, the newly released Digital Compensation Claims Tool represents an era in IT innovation across the VA aimed at radically streamlining the process through which America’s veterans receive compensation and health care.

• Data

In a move toward overcoming challenges around providing care best tailored to veterans' needs, the Department of Veterans Affairs is turning to big data analytics to improve the agency's core services, top agency leaders detailed this week at the AIWorld Government conference in Washington, D.C.

• Workforce

As the creation and collection of data continue to increase dramatically, industry and federal stakeholders alike are grappling with the ramifications of unprecedented access to insights and the corresponding challenges of privacy and security.

An update on VA’s current tech tools, services and priorities moving forward to improve veteran health care, as outlined by VA CIO James Gfrerer.