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VA testing cash prizes to improve its health record system
The Department of Veterans Affairs is trying out a new system of contests to make upgrades to its electronic medical record system. The agency plans to award up to three prizes worth $3 million to vendors who create open-source based components to VistA.
Tags: technology , Roger Baker , VistA , VMBS , health IT , acquisition , Jared Serbu
Lawmaker looks outside VA to fill mental care gap
Tags: Jeff Miller , mental health funding , House , Congress , TRICARE
VA moves mobile from concept to reality with veteran homelessness app
The Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development departments created a mobile app in two weeks to improve the process for counting homeless veterans. The successful development effort puts the notions detailed in the Digital Government Strategy into practice.
Tags: technology , HUD , David Peters , Lisa Schlosser , OMB , Rick Holgate , ATF , mobile computing , Federal Mobile Computing Summit , agile development , Jason Miller
In Depth interviews - Jan. 18
On the In Depth show blog, you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.
Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , Tim McManus , Horace Blackman , Partnership for Public Service
Unions frustrated by slow-roll of some labor-management forums
At the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations meeting, several employee representatives said the time has come for the committee to put more pressure on agencies to have more of the collaborative forums up and running well. During a time of budget reductions, possible furloughs and a government shutdown, the unions say the forums provide a way for agencies to better manage all of these fiscal challenges.
Tags: management , workforce , John Berry , OPM , Danny Werfel , OMB , Scott Gould , David Kappos , Patent and Trademark Office , Bill Dougan , NFFE , Michael Filler , International Brotherhood of Teamsters , David Holway , National Association of Government Employees , Robert Budens , Patent Office Professional Association , National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relat , labor-management relations , Jason Miller
Obama Cabinet shuffle taking shape
Tags: John Kerry , State , management , nomination , Eric Shinseki , HHS , Kathleen Sebelius , Eric Holder , DoJ
Second VA official resigns over conference spending
Alice Muellerweiss, the dean of VA's Learning University, resigned, joining John Sepulveda, the agency's former chief human capital officer. As many as 10 others are under review for their actions or parts in what the IG called a lack of oversight.
Tags: management , oversight , Congress , Darrell Issa , Alice Muellerweiss , VA conference scandal , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , John Sepulveda
PTSD — there's an app for that
A smartphone application — released by the Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments in the spring — leverages the power of mobile technology to help veterans better manage post-traumatic stress disorder.
Tags: mobile , DoD , PTSD , Sonja Batten , mobile applications , Jack Moore
VA's mobile projects put iPads in hands of doctors - and patients
The Veterans Affairs Department's mobile projects have centered on improving internal business processes and changing how the agency interacts with the public. The department's "Clinic-in-Hand" program, which will launch early next year, will deploy iPads to family caregivers of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. And increasingly VA doctors and nurses are eschewing the clipboards and prescription pads in favor of mobile options.
Tags: Kathleen Frisbee , mobile , technology , Veterans Health Administration , Federal Drive , Gov 3.0: Its Mobile , Jack Moore
Senate directs VA to work with state agencies to clear up claims backlog
The Senate unanimously approved a measure requiring the Veterans Affairs Department to work more closely with state agencies to reduce a longstanding and growing backlog of disability claims. The measure, sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) was included as an amendment to the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act.
Tags: DoD , 2013 NDAA , John Cornyn , Congress , Senate , VA backlog , Jack Moore
