IBMâs Gina Loften has said government agencies and the private sector should work together to leverage the âpower of dataâ through cognitive platforms in order to help treat traumatic brain injury and other
MoreThe House has voted 295-129 to approve an appropriations bill that would provide $81.6 billion in fiscal year 2017 funds to house, train, and equip military personnel. A post on the House Appropriations website said
MoreKayla Williams, formerly project associate at nonprofit public policy think tank Rand Corp., has been named director of the center for women veterans at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA said
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The U.S. Digital Service has launched a new Web application that seeks to expedite the disability claims appeals process at the Department of Veteran Affairs, Kavi Harshawat and Mary Ann Brody wrote in
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The Senate has confirmed President Barack Obama’s nomination of former Securities and Exchange Commission Senior Counsel Michael Missal as the new inspector general at the Department of Veterans Affairs, The Hill newspaper reported Tuesday. Jordain Carney writes the Homeland
MoreVeterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald and Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson have highlighted VA’s ongoing efforts to transform its healthcare system during a meeting with the Commission on Care in Washington, The Christian Science Monitor reported
MoreDavid Shulkin, undersecretary for health at the Department of Veterans Affairs, has called for more integration between the VAâs electronic health record and private sector providers in order to help veterans access
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has selected five new members to join its advisory committee that advises the VA secretary on programs and current issues facing women veterans. VA has also appointed Mary Westmoreland as the committee’s
MoreThe Department of Veterans Affairs has said that it has complied with a congressional mandate to make its electronic health records interoperable with the Defense Departmentâs data through the Joint Legacy Viewer
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Both appropriations panels of the House and Senate have approved $4.2 billion in funds for the Department of Veterans Affairs but places some restrictions on spending for the VA’s electronic health record modernization effort, FCW
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