Innovation

The enthusiasm was palpable as participants pitched innovations and improvements they’ve had success implementing in their own facilities.

VA, Student Veterans of America, National Student Clearinghouse collaborate to better track data

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and The Center for Open Data Enterprise are co-hosting an Open Data Roundtable in the Indian Treaty Room of Eisenhower Executive Office Building May 6 to form a collaborative network between VA and data users. Open data, particularly machine-readable information, is data made available to the public by government agencies that can provide a great deal of valuable information to researchers and advocates.

On April 10-12, the VA Center for Innovation is collaborating with Forge Health on the Health Innovation Challenge 2015 hosted by the Atlanta VA Medical Center. We’re bringing together inventive, forward-thinking minds to change the status quo of health care for our nation’s Veterans and their supporters. If you are a Veteran, caregiver, engineer, entrepreneur, clinician, designer or scientist, then come get involved and help drive much-needed innovations to influence VA healthcare and healthcare more broadly.

The Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation recently named VA’s Mobile Health Initiative as part of its Bright Ideas Program for 2015.

New economic opportunity report compares Veteran/Non-Veteran outcomes, allows VA to make informed decisions for Veterans' benefits and service programs.

How human-centered design can help VA prioritize people over processes. [...]

For the fifth consecutive year, VA's Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy scored the highest in overall satisfaction in the J.D. Power National Pharmacy Study.

VA  representatives  and Veteran Service Organizations met today to explore [...]

On the heels of the launch of the United States [...]

Last year, VA launched several pilots of secure mobile applications [...]

Last February, I introduced VA’s GI Bill® Comparison Tool as [...]