VA

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.

Thought leaders within and adjacent to federal agencies are endeavoring to bring a product management approach to government IT, according to key representatives from the U.S. Digital Service and Georgetown University.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is focusing on broad-scale renovation of its deployment capacities, according to Executive Director of End-User Operations Dewaine Beard.

• Artificial Intelligence

The Department of Veterans Affairs is aiming to drastically expand its artificial intelligence research and implementation, according to newly appointed Director of Artificial Intelligence Gil Alterovitz.

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.

• Health IT

Cybersecurity does not have to be an impediment to delivering efficient health care if security professionals are incorporated much earlier in the development process...

The military's new electronic health record program, MHS Genesis, has moved beyond rollout at initial operating capability sites and will begin rollout in the “Travis Wave” (named for Travis Air Force Base, one of the first bases in the wave) Sept. 7.

• 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.

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.

• 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.