Indian Health Service

Watchword for 2023: Resilience

Don’t waste too much time looking back at a weird 2022. Too much is possible in 2023.

Tom Temin Commentary

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. Genesis Healthcare, the nation’s largest nursing home operator which has 70,000 employees at nearly 400 nursing homes and senior communities, told its workers this week they will have to get COVID-19 vaccinations to keep their jobs — a possible shift in an industry that has largely rejected compulsory measures for fear of triggering an employee exodus that could worsen already dangerous staffing shortages. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

VA, HHS expand vaccines mandate to nearly all health care workers

Workforce

Musurlian, Peter

Indian Health Service found to have gaps in spending, facilities oversight

Agency Oversight

HHS IG urges Indian Health Service leaders to get a grip on healthcare

Federal Drive

James Gordon

Jonathan Merrell: Indian Health Service launches dashboard tracking care quality

Federal Drive

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PENSACOLA, Fla. (May 24, 2011) Cryptologic Technician (Collection) Seaman Recruit Ben Lowden, left, from Brownsberg, Ind., Cryptologic Technician (Networks) Seaman Apprentice Alicia Sutliff, from Jacksonville, Fla., and Cryptologic Technician (Technical) 3rd Class Steven Tometczak, from Reno, Nev., students at the Center for Information Dominance (CID) Corry Station, preview the Integrated System for Language Education and Training (ISLET). The program is being tested by the CID-based Center for Language, Regional Expertise and Culture and the Academic Consortium for Global Education. (U.S. Navy photo by Gary Nichols/Released)

Deadline set for Navy’s move to Windows 10

Federal Newscast

Lawmakers push for more exemptions to hiring freeze

Hiring/Retention

Indian Health Service applying IT workarounds in light of poor broadband access

Ask the CIO

Indian Health Service solving e-health challenges with help from VA

The Indian Health Service is using the success of the Veterans Affairs e-health record program to update its own systems. IHS Acting Chief Information…

Technology

Indian Health Service facing data deadline

Acting CIO Howard Hays said the agency is taking advantage of the work VA is doing to update its systems. Indian Health Services borrows heavily from VA\’s…

Ask the CIO

VA wants to bring innovation to VistA

Defense

Agency CIO Baker said moving the electronic health system to open source would let VA to more easily and more quickly use software developed outside of the department. VA\’s decision comes after an industry panel recommended 10 ways to fix VistA.