Health Care

• Customer Experience
• Electronic Health Records
• Health IT
• Presidential Transition

Secretary Denis McDonough said his team has provided tools for the Trump administration to tackle community care and EHR modernization.

• Data
• Digital Services
• Digitization
• Electronic Health Records
• Health care
• Health IT
• Presidential Transition

VA sets its sights on modernizing its EHR, advancing interoperability and adopting emerging tech amid the presidential transition.

VBA's claims processing modernization enabled the agency to process more than 11,000 claims in a day for the ninth time this fiscal year.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Customer Experience
• Data
• Digitization
• Electronic Health Records
• Health care
• Health IT

VA plans to resume rollout of its EHR in FY 25, focusing recent feedback to drive continuous improvement amid the presidential transition.

• 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.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Health care

VA is piloting new AI tools to tackle existing priorities, innovate with a purpose and increase literacy before taking next steps.

• GovCast
• Health care

The agency’s Innovation Unit uses low- to no-cost pilots to test new health care solutions before they reach veterans at home.

• Customer Experience
• Health care
• Health IT

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced the roll out of its tele-emergency care program nationwide this week.

• Health IT

Federal leaders at the GovCIO Media & Research Health IT Summit spoke last week about the progress the EHR deployment has made, the challenges along the way and how their agencies will continue their deployments.

The agency has been working to expand how hospital systems share veteran data as part of its Veteran Interoperability Pledge.

• Health care
• Workforce

Agency officials Dr. Shereef Elnahal and Joshua Jacobs said additional funding would sustain increased services to veterans.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data
• Health care
• Health IT

New approaches to data and emerging technology have benefits in public health, but leaders must build trust in communities first.