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The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for potential sources that can help modernize and sustain the agency’s enterprise human resources system envisioned to support over 400K employees including managers and other personnel.

AT&T has entered into an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer free video conferencing services to veterans to help them connect with their health care providers through smartphones, computers or tablets.

Toni Townes-Whitley, president of U.S. regulated industries at Microsoft, has described how the company helped agencies increasingly pursue digital transformation efforts as the COVID-19 pandemic tested the government's mission resiliency. She wrote in a blog entry posted Monday that the departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense implemented Microsoft offerings, such as Bing Maps Platform and Azure Government, to support continued operations.

Titan Alpha, a joint venture between Atlas Research and Prometheus Federal Services, has received a task order to help the Department of Veterans Affairs' innovation hub create cost-reduction pilot programs.

Gary Newgaard, vice president of public sector at Pure Storage, wrote in an article published Tuesday on FedTech Magazine how artificial intelligence and big data could help government agencies carry out their missions by gleaning insights from large data volumes.  

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched OneRecord, a consumer-facing health platform, to enable veterans to digitally access medical records from nationwide VA locations. Under the VA Lighthouse API program, OneRecord features a user-centered design, security and accessibility standards and is one of the first consumer-facing applications to connect veterans and their health data. 

Leidos has chosen 3M’s health information systems business to provide computer-assisted coding technology to support medical documentation work across the Department of Defense's Military Health System.

Lumen has secured a position as an authorized service provider on the $721 million Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) National Local Exchange Carrier Next Generation contract vehicle, as well as a spot on VA's $195 million Data and Wide Area Network Carrier contract vehicle. "Lumen's amazing platform for data and applications is ideally positioned to help government agencies like the VA achieve their IT modernization goals," said David Young, two-time Wash100 Award recipient and SVP for the public sector and Lumen’s global hyperscaler business.

Jason Ormsby, former quality, safety and improvement offering lead at Deloitte, has joined Aptive Resources as chief innovation officer tasked with overseeing various activities to deliver safe healthcare services.to providers and patients.

The Veterans Health Administration has tasked 3D Systems to help the government stand up additive manufacturing facilities at hospitals, where personnel would produce 3D-printed medical equipment. The company said Thursday it will deliver ProX SLS 6100 3D printers and related materials to establish the planned facilities and a corresponding quality management system for VHA.

Cerner and the Department of Veterans Affairs have deployed an electronic health record system at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. 

General Dynamics’ information technology business has received a potential five-year, $306M task order to help the Department of Veterans Affairs convert military veteran records to digital format and automate processing of data.

Enlitic has secured an other transactional award from the Defense Innovation Unit to deploy an AI-based diagnostic imaging technology for a pilot program that will take place at multiple treatment centers run by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Health Agency.

CACI International has secured a potential six-year, $152 million contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide enterprise expertise in support of the department’s Financial Management Business Transformation Program (FMBT), the company announced Monday.

Amazon Web Services partnered with social media platform developer RallyPoint, the Department of Veterans Affairs and Harvard University to develop a machine learning model that can detect mental health issues among veterans, Nextgov reported Friday.