Defense Health Agency

• New year, new ways for scammers to impersonate federal agencies

  In today's Federal Newscast, fraudsters expanded their tactics to kick off 2020 and the Social Security Administration continues to be a top target.

  Federal Newscast

  January 10, 2020
• DoD says it’s solved the most pressing problems in its EHR rollout

  Defense health IT officials say they're seeing only about one-third the number of trouble tickets as they encountered during the initial wave of MHS Genesis deployments.

  Defense

  January 10, 2020
• Defense bill puts brakes on Pentagon plan to reduce uniformed medical jobs

  The 2020 NDAA bars DoD from converting military medical billets to civilian ones until more analysis is done.

  Defense

  December 13, 2019
• Payment glitch hits TRICARE beneficiaries with four-figure monthly premiums

  Beneficiaries credit cards were hit with charges up to 100 times what they should have been.

  Defense

  December 05, 2019
• DoD rolls out new records systems one installation at a time, starting with Travis AFB

  For an update on this multi-year project, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Bill Tinston, the program executive officer at the Defense Healthcare Management Systems office, and Air Force Maj. Gen. Lee Payne, a physician and assistant director for combat support at DHA.

  Federal Drive

  November 01, 2019
• For DoD’s new electronic health records, success comes in small steps

  The Defense Department is balancing urgency and patience in deploying its new electronic health record system.

  Tom Temin Commentary

  October 31, 2019
• Air Force category management: Spend intelligently, not just by year’s end

  In part 2 of their look at the Air Force’s procurement innovations, Tim Cooke and Anne Laurent explain why the service’s approach to category management is catching on with other agencies.

  Commentary

  October 15, 2019
• Thousands of federal employees to be asked about benefits this coming fall

  In today's Federal Newscast, 50,000 federal employees will get a chance to sound off about their benefits this fall in the Office of Personnel Management's Federal Employee Benefits survey.

  Federal Newscast

  October 01, 2019
• Army, DHA take steps to stop managing day-to-day IT operations

  The Air Force’s Cloud One program faces a protest by Leidos, while the Army names a new project manager for data and the CIO Council upgrades its website for the first time since 2017.

  Reporter's Notebook

  September 30, 2019
• EPA’s chief financial officer is stepping down

  In today's Federal Newscast, after just over a year into the job, Holly Greaves is leaving the EPA.

  Federal Newscast

  September 05, 2019
• Pentagon looking to fill AI ethicist role

  In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department is looking to hire an ethicist who can guide defense agencies on the application of artificial intelligence.

  Federal Newscast

  September 04, 2019
• As Bono leaves, DHA considers contractors to make up for medical staff decreases

  The military is thinking about cutting 18,000 medical billets and contractors may help make up the difference.

  Defense

  August 27, 2019
• Newly revealed emails show how VA officials felt about ‘Mar-a-Lago crowd’s’ involvement in agency affairs

  In today's Federal Newscast, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington obtained hundreds of emails showing VA officials questioned the Mar-A-Lago crowd's influence on electronic health record modernization.

  Federal Newscast

  August 27, 2019
• Date set for major change coming to GSA schedules

  In today's Federal Newscast, it's now known when the Federal Acquisition Service will release its consolidated schedule, which will include the new special item numbers and terms and conditions.

  Federal Newscast

  August 23, 2019