Department of Veterans Affairs
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing for a potential government shutdown — drawing up a list of which VA employees would be furloughed during a lapse in appropriations, and which employees would remain on the job.
September 22, 2023 -
VA medical workers feel burnt out putting in longer hours and going through more steps to complete routine tasks using the new Oracle-Cerner EHR.
September 14, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs' new EHR timeline is frustrating lawmakers, who say the VA has little to show for the project, after five years and billions of dollars going into it.
September 14, 2023 -
Agencies have until Oct. 13 to submit requests to OPM for new special salary rate approvals. But bigger budget concerns may discourage agencies from requesting or even implementing them.
September 13, 2023 -
The Postal Service is rethinking its approach to hiring, with a renewed focus on getting its new hires to stay longer at the agency.
September 13, 2023 -
The Senate voted 50-46 on Tuesday to confirm VA Chief of Staff Tanya Bradsher to serve as the department’s deputy secretary. Bradsher is the first woman to hold this title at the VA.
September 12, 2023 -
The public focus of EHR modernization has been on configuring a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution that blends all the requirements that are unique to the VA, with a system that is widely used in the commercial sector, and at the same time is able to transmit data with the newly deployed EHR used by the Department of Defense.
September 06, 2023 - VA vows ‘full review’ of website after IT issues impact disability claims for nearly 57,000 veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs discovered technical problems that may have delayed disability claims for tens of thousands of veterans.
September 06, 2023 -
The VA is offering a perk that's unmatched across the federal civilian government. Its Office of Information and Technology last month implemented a historic 17% pay raise for its IT and cybersecurity workforce.
August 31, 2023 -
The Biden administration is putting its next wave of customer experience improvement into focus, giving agencies new targets — and soon, new tools — to improve the way agencies deliver public-facing services across government.
August 30, 2023 -
Efforts by the National Guard to get better healthcare coverage have yet to find a path forward to success.
August 28, 2023 -
The new supplemental pay rates are expected to help the NSA and other defense intelligence components compete with the private sector.
August 22, 2023 -
The Veterans Health Administration is looking to exceed its year-end hiring goals, during a year in which the agency already broke records to grow its workforce.
August 15, 2023 -
Anil Tilbe, a director with the Department of Veterans Affairs, explains how his understanding of artificial intelligence has evolved through different lenses over the last few years.
August 10, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is facing an eleventh-hour surge of applications from veterans looking to receive the maximum benefit they qualify for under the toxic-exposure PACT Act.
August 09, 2023