health

• Customer Experience
• Health care
• Health IT

VHA's 2024 Innovation Report highlights the innovations enabling the agency to keep pace with the surge of claims and benefits delivery.

• Cybersecurity
• Data
• Health care
• Health IT
• Quantum
• Zero Trust

FDA is advancing its tech capabilities with quantum computing, zero-trust architecture and modernized data sharing.

• Customer Experience
• Digital Services
• People

John Boerstler led major customer experience programs that helped improve the agency's trust score and influence work across the government.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Health care
• Workforce

The agency sees biotechnology as one of five emerging industries for its applications in health and the environment.

• HealthCast
• Data
• Health IT

Agencies are incorporating the technology into daily operations to improve data processing and broaden treatment options.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Health IT

AI is critical piece of the future of mental health care, ultimately making mental health resources and tools more accessible for all.

• Data
• Health IT

Federal health officials from CMS and CDC are adopting USCDI standards to further public health interoperability and equity goals.

Public health officials and organizations pivoted quickly to address the COVID-19 pandemic when it first began in March 2020, and health IT kept pace to support their efforts. But health IT still has a long way to go to sufficiently support public health, according to panelists at GovernmentCIO Media & Research’s health IT event last week.

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.

• Health care

President Trump noted several areas of accomplishments, including VA reforms and research efforts.

• 5G

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

The Department of Veterans Affairs is leveraging 3D printing toward improving patient care, a new effort for the agency launched in 2017 that has been gaining momentum across government.