Veterans Affairs
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In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of Veterans Affairs says it's a different agency today because of the pandemic.
November 11, 2021 -
The White House said Kurt DelBene will be the nominee to be the assistant secretary for information and technology and CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
November 05, 2021 -
About 83% of employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs' initial go-live site in Spokane, Washington, say their morale has worsened due to the electronic health record implementation over the last year. VA is eyeing February as its target for deploying the EHR to its second site.
November 02, 2021 -
Former VA deputy CIO Ed Meagher lays out things Secretary Denis McDonough needs to consider to avoid this looming catastrophe for the Veterans Affairs electronic health record modernization effort.
November 01, 2021 -
VHA's Innovation Ecosystem has teamed up with a vendor called Wellovate to develop immersion therapies for patients.
October 26, 2021 -
The department is still digging through the data, but Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said he's seeing a "bigger number" of employee accommodation requests for the COVID-19 vaccine mandate than they received for last year's annual flu shot policy.
October 21, 2021 -
Federal Drive with Tom Temin caught up with the commander of the soldiers who guard the Tomb of the Unknown, 1st Lt. Andrew Katz at the Association of the U.S. Army Conference in Washington last week.
October 19, 2021 -
A new book says federal policy makes the nation's veterans sicker and poorer. Its author is not just anybody. Daniel Gade is a former Army lieutenant colonel, who lost a leg in combat, now an adjunct lecturer in public administration and policy at American University.
October 19, 2021 -
Like with other agencies, the pandemic was a boon for advancing modernization, but as the second-largest tech enterprise in the government, the VA’s evolution is particularly striking.
October 18, 2021 -
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) urged the Biden administration to create the "institutional infrastructure" needed to support an executive order on improving equity within government services and step up data collection programs.
October 15, 2021 -
The process of producing a new, independent cost estimate for the electronic health record modernization project will begin later this month, the Department of Veterans Affairs told Congress, and it will take another year to complete.
October 08, 2021 -
Recent veterans encountering transition to civilian life often face uncertainty, self doubt, sometimes serious. And some of those returning from Afghanistan after the abrupt U.S. withdrawal might find the transition extra difficult.
October 08, 2021 -
A total of 23 agencies have detailed new climate change strategies, part of their response to a January executive order from President Joe Biden.
October 07, 2021 -
Dr. Neil Evans recently became the second acting chief information officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2021 and sixth in the last 11 years.
October 06, 2021 -
All DoD clearance holders are now enrolled in "continuous vetting, with the program now expanding to other agencies and looking to pull from more data sources.
October 06, 2021