Veterans Affairs
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Kshemendra Paul, the VA's first permanent chief data officer, is leaving the agency in November to join the Energy Department as an assistant inspector general.
October 21, 2022 -
The Veterans Health Administration will hold a national onboarding surge event in November to get candidates who have already accepted job offers to start work sooner.
October 19, 2022 -
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology is planning a healthcare project to establish best practices for security and privacy in telehealth situations.
October 17, 2022 -
The VA is also sending letters to every veteran who may have been impacted by problems with the EHR currently running at five VA locations across the U.S.
October 13, 2022 -
Several agencies, looking to address a long-term cyber workforce shortage in the federal government, are proposing a new pay model to attract these in-demand workers to public service.
October 12, 2022 -
Improving customer experience is a top priority for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The department has been concentrating on improving service to its constituents, veterans.
October 11, 2022 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is saying it's too soon to know if a vendor update has resolved patient safety issues holding up future rollouts of its new Electronic Health Record.
September 28, 2022 -
The Access for Veterans to Records Act is on the move in the Senate, but Colleen Shogan's nomination to be national archivist hits a roadblock.
September 28, 2022 -
5G, the latest wireless communication technology, has started to change how agencies think about networks, both from a physical infrastructure standpoint and for how it can enhance service to employees and constituents.
September 28, 2022 -
The Million Veteran Program of the Veterans Affairs Department does not quite have a million participants. But it did recently reach 900,000.
September 27, 2022 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking at a major, across-the-board hiring initiative as the agency looks to bring even more patients into its health care network.
September 26, 2022 -
If the Senate confirms her, the White House's nominee for national archivist said the veterans' record request backlog would be the “most important discrete problem” facing her.
September 23, 2022 -
The Justice Department is telling the Department of Veterans Affairs that state government officials cannot pursue criminal or civil charges against its employees for performing abortions.
September 22, 2022 -
Deputy VA Secretary Donald Remy told members of the Senate Appropriations Committee that the agency won’t proceed with future EHR go-lives until it addresses persistent outages and patient safety concerns.
September 21, 2022 -
For many people who contract the COVID virus, the illness comes and goes. Others develop what's known as long COVID. Symptoms last weeks or months. The Veterans Affairs Department has developed what it calls a whole health approach to long COVID. With how VA practitioners are dealing with long COVID, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Dr. Elizabeth Brill, the deputy assistant undersecretary for health.
September 19, 2022