Download or read book Examining the Progress and Challenges in Modernizing Information Technology at the U S Department of Veterans Affairs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Veterans Affairs Information Technology written by Bryan Barton and published by Nova Snova. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has made limited progress toward addressing information technology (IT) system modernization challenges. Chapter 1 begins by examining IT because it is so important to everything VA does. From delivering timely care to veterans, to ensuring that medical records follow the patient, to making benefit decisions accurately, modern IT systems are essential. Chapter 2 summarizes key results and recommendations for the VA IT systems modernization efforts, FITARA implementation, and cybersecurity efforts.VA provides health care services to almost 9 million veterans and their families and relies on its health information system--VistA--to do so. Chapter 3 summarizes preliminary observations regarding costs incurred for the system and related activities during the last 3 fiscal years; key components that comprise VistA and are to be replaced; and actions VA has taken to prepare for its transition to the Cerner system. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 included provisions that VA and DOD jointly develop and implement electronic health record systems or capabilities and accelerate the exchange of health care information. The act also required that these systems be compliant with applicable interoperability standards as reported in chapter 4. Chapter 5 determined VA's efforts to modernize VistA, including key contractors, contract costs, and expected contractor activities and VA's current plans for modernizing VistA and the progress that has been achieved to date. Chapter 6 summarizes VA's history of efforts to modernize VistA, including past use of contractors, and the department's recent effort to acquire a commercial electronic health record system to replace VistA.In September 2014, GAO reported on the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (Family Caregiver Program) and found that the program office had limitations with its information technology (IT) system--the Caregiver Application Tracker (CAT). Chapter 7 examines how VHA is implementing the Family Caregiver Program.
Download or read book Veterans Affairs Progress Made in Centralizing Information Technology Management but Challenges Persist written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping the Challenges and Progress of the Office of Information and Technology written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Technology Modernization and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book VA Information Technology Contracting written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Technology Modernization and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Senate of the United States of America written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Veterans Affairs written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) depends on information technology (IT) to effectively serve our nation's veterans, with an IT budget of about $1 billion annually. However, it has encountered numerous challenges in managing its IT programs and initiatives. To address these challenges, VA is realigning its IT organization and management to a centralized model founded on a defined set of improved management processes. Begun in October 2005, the realignment is planned to be complete by July 2008. In this testimony, GAO discusses its recent reporting on VA's realignment effort and its management of other IT programs and initiatives, including ongoing systems development efforts and work to share electronic health information with the Department of Defense (DOD). To prepare this testimony, GAO reviewed its past work in these areas.
Download or read book Examining the Backlog and the U S Department of Veterans Affairs Claims Processing System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Examining the Progress of Electronic Health Record Interoperability Between the U s Department of Veterans Affairs and U s Department of Defense written by United States Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the progress of electronic health record interoperability between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 14, 2009.
Download or read book Veterans Affairs written by Valerie C. Melvin and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA), through its Veterans Health Admin. (VHA), provides health care for more than 5 million veterans each year. In 2001, VHA began an initiative, HealtheVet, to modernize its current medical information system. The objectives of this report were to determine the status of the modernization, VA¿s overall plan for completing it, and how VA is providing oversight to ensure the success of the initiative. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Va Information Technology written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has laid the groundwork for an integrated, departmentwide enterprise architecture--a blueprint for evolving its information systems and developing new systems to optimize their mission value. Crucial executive support is in place and the department has a strategy to define products and processes critical to its development. VA is now recruiting a chief architect to help implement and manage the enterprise architecture. VA has tried to strengthen its information security management program by mandating information security performance standards and greater management accountability for senior executives. It has also updated security policies, procedures, and standards to implement critical security measures. Despite these efforts, VA continues to report pervasive and serious information security weaknesses. The Veterans Benefits Administration is still far from launching a modernized system to replace its aging benefits delivery network. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has made good progress in expanding the use of its decision support system (DSS) for clinical and financial decision making. The use of DSS data for the fiscal year 2002 resource allocation process, and a requirement that veteran integrated service network directors better account for their use of this system, have raised awareness of, and promoted its use, among VHA facilities. VA has made little progress in sharing data with the Department of Defense and Indian Health Service as part of a computer-based patient record initiative. Implementation strategies continue to be revised, the scope of the initiative has been substantially narrowed, and it continues to operate without clear lines of authority or comprehensive, coordinated plans.
Download or read book Reboot written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Veterans Affairs written by Valerie C. Melvin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Technology written by Joel C. Willemssen and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of information technology (IT) is crucial to helping the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) effectively serve the nation's veterans, and the VA has expended billions of dollars annually over the last several years to manage and secure its info. systems and assets. VA has, however, experienced challenges in managing its IT. Reports have previously highlighted VA's weaknesses in managing and securing its info. systems and assets. This testimony discusses past reports on VA's weaknesses in managing its IT resources, specifically in the areas of systems development, info. security, and collaboration with the DoD on efforts to meet common health system needs. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Information Technology written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is engaged in an ongoing effort to share electronic medical information with the Department of Defense (DOD), which is important in helping to ensure high-quality health care for active duty military personnel and veterans. Also important, in the face of current military responses to national and foreign crises, is ensuring effective and efficient delivery of veterans' benefits, which is the focus of VA's development of the Veterans Service Network (VETSNET), a modernized system to support benefits payment processes. GAO is testifying on (1) VA's efforts to exchange medical information with DOD, including both near-term initiatives involving existing systems and the longer term program to exchange data between the departments' new health information systems, and (2) VA's ongoing project to develop VETSNET. To develop this testimony, GAO relied on its previous work and followed up on agency actions to respond to GAO recommendations.
Download or read book Examining Vas Information Technology Systems That Provide Economic Opportunities for Veterans written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining VA's information technology systems that provide economic opportunities for veterans : hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, Tuesday, November 3, 2015.
Download or read book Veterans Affairs written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
