Patty Murray

Senate GOP blocks bill to expand IVF access as advocates call for better FEHB coverage

A Democrat-led bill aiming to broadly expand IVF access has specific implications for feds through the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program.

Congress

Healthcare, TAP big concerns for military to civilian transition

Defense News

Senate plans to take back $290M in TMF funding in 2024

Budget

A person accesses the Department of Veterans Affairs' EHR system on a laptop.

VA’s new EHR hits another outage, as agency reconsiders FY 2024 request for project

IT Modernization

Senate Democrats join calls for pause on new VA EHR rollouts until metrics improve

Veterans Affairs

VA EHR linked to veterans ‘fatally harmed,’ senators say, but agency still sees way forward for project

Veterans Affairs

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VBA sees automation tools as ‘game-changer’ to keep up with record workload

Veterans Affairs

FILE - This Aug. 2, 2018 file photo shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md. The Food and Drug Administration has issued a negative review of a closely watched experimental drug for the debilitating illness known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The review comes ahead of a meeting this week for outside experts to vote on the drug for ALS. The drug has been the focal point of a lobbying campaign by patients, their families and lawmakers. FDA reviewers said Monday, March 28, 2022 the single study from Amylyx Pharmaceuticals was “not persuasive” due to missing data, errors in enrolling patients and other problems. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Deadline approaches to pass bill affecting employment for 3,500 FDA workers

Congress

VA scraps last EHR go-live date in FY 2022, amid IG accounts of patient harm

Veterans Affairs

With deployments ramping up next year, senators seek more transparency on VA EHR

Veterans Affairs

VA resuming EHR deployments in March, restructuring management of massive project

Veterans Affairs

Nineteen C-130J aircraft take part in an elephant walk before takeoff during an exercise Mar. 15, 2018, at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. Numerous C-130J units from around the Air Force participated in a training event to enhance operational effectiveness and joint interoperability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Rhett Isbell)

Air Force faces first test from Congress in divesting from legacy systems

The Air Force wants to save $1.4 billion by getting rid of obsolete weapons.

Air Force

New mechanism for VA to screen patients, employees for coronavirus

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Department of Veterans Affairs has a new digital tool to help screen veterans, employees and other visitors for coronavirus.

Federal Newscast

A portion of President Donald Trump's first proposed budget, focusing on the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and released by the Office of Management and Budget, is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

HUD ‘moving quickly’ with data-driven analysis to spend $3B in pandemic funding

Big Data

New pulse survey data from the Census Bureau will supplement other sources that HUD has relied on for years to allocate more than $3 billion in CARES Act spending.