Twenty-four veterans at the Martinsburg VA Medical Center died in 2022 and 2023 with a community care consult still unscheduled, and the chief of community care emailed their names to her team. This issue follows one referral from that hospital through the seven steps it travels between VA and the private doctor at the other end, finds the one date VA cannot produce, explains why six scheduling fixes since 2000 each repaired a single step, and sets out four things, each with an owner, that would give the trip a clock.
The VA built workforce reduction into its budget model. The oversight account monitoring the $56.2 billion network it's building around that assumption is down 5.1%.
Three major federal health IT contract vehicles are moving simultaneously in a 90-day window. The firms that position now will define the next decade of defense and VA health technology.
The conformed TOPRs settled who owns the risk. VA's own OIG, GAO, and Congress documented the governance gap. Here is what the winning proposals have to build.
New research and a confirmed government breach show that the safety guardrails on deployed clinical AI are behavioral rules, not architectural limits. Federal health is deploying ambient AI faster than it is governing it.
A practical guide to building competitive bids for the Community Care Network Next Generation contract by company type. Different company types need different strategies. Here is how to read the evaluation criteria for yours.
Treat CCN Next Gen as a regular community care contract and you will write the wrong proposal. It is VA's attempt to apply modular open systems architecture thinking to a care network, and that changes what a competitive bid has to look like.
VA released an RFI that most contractors are not reading carefully enough. The signal inside is worth more than the solicitation looks like at first glance.