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- My HealtheVet
- My HealtheVet is the US Department of Veteran's Affairs e–health Website, which offers Veterans, active duty service members, their dependents and caregivers anywhere, anytime Internet access to VA health care information and services. It is a free, online Personal Health Record. With My HealtheVet, Veterans can access trusted, secure, and current health and benefits information as well as record, track and store important health and military history information at their convenience. Veterans who are enrolled in a VA facility can refill their VA prescriptions.
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- US Veterans Affairs moves to the Cloud
- Posted by Stuart Lauchlan. Public Technology, 14 November 2012. "The US Department of Veterans Affairs is to move 600,000 users to Microsoft Cloud email and collaboration services in one of the biggest public sector deals to date. A five-year, $36 million contract will first see 15,000 VA employees move to Microsoft's government community Cloud collaboration offering, Office 365 for Government, with the rest of the agency's 600,000 users to follow..."
Added: 15 November 2012;
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- Engaging Veterans Online
- by Levi Newman. Social Media Today, August 13, 2012. "Anyone who has served this country's military knows that the sacrifice, both to country and family, is second to none. As a result, veterans should always be given extra appreciation, dedicated time, and a big thank you. Businesses, in particular, can benefit from taking this approach to engaging vets. Given the impact that the Internet has on both the young and old, it's not uncommon to see veterans turning to social media to speak their minds regarding serving in the military, the present state of U.S. politics, and just about everything else discussed on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other social networking sites. And this is exactly where companies should seek them out..."
Added: 16 August 2012;
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- Got an app for that? For combat vets, the answer is yes
- By Amber Corrin. Federal Computer Week, July 19, 2012. "At the Defense Department's National Center for Telehealth and Technology, scientists, researchers, program managers and developers are joining forces to usher in a new era in health care. They are using mobile applications to put portable, interactive health tools in the hands of military service members and help recently returned veterans navigate the complexities of returning to civilian life..."
Added: 23 July 2012;
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- DOD Mobile App Eases Transition To Civilian Life
- Department of Defense expands menu of apps that aim to help military personnel deal with social situations and health issues, By Therese Reger. Information Week, May 8, 2012. "The Department of Defense on Tuesday released a mobile app to help returning soldiers adjust to civilian life by dealing with the lack of structure that can bedevil them. The app, called Positive Activity Jackpot, was developed by the DOD's National Center for Telehealth & Technology, or T2, which evaluates, builds, and tests technologies to help service personnel recover and maintain health after returning home..."
Added: 17 May 2012;
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- VA launches a healthcare data mapping project
- By Bob Brewin. NextGov, May 14, 2012. "The Veterans Affairs Department has kicked off a pilot project to map the data in its Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) to a new open healthcare data dictionary developed by 3M Company..."
Added: 16 May 2012;
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- VA resumes reverse auctions, but questions linger
- By Matthew Weigelt, Camille Tuutti. Federal Computer Week, May 1, 2012. "The Veterans Affairs Department has lifted its ban on reverse auctions with new rules in place, but the questions that led to the temporary moratorium still haven't been answered completely. Contracting officers now have to document in a contract file the government cost estimate for the purchase and how that number was calculated. Contracting officers have to detail how much it cost VA to hold the auction, including the fee the auction host receives..."
Added: 3 May 2012;
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- VA looking for mobile apps in innovation contest
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, March 29, 2012. "The Veterans Affairs Department is looking for a few good apps—specifically, mobile applications that will help veterans understand and receive their benefits—in a new industry innovation competition announced on March 29. The new competition is the third targeted at industry participants in the $50 million VA Innovation Initiative (Vai2) program to spark new ideas and technologies for the department..."
Added: 3 April 2012;
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- Survey finds VA patients favor sharing health information
- By Sophie Quinton, National Journal. NextGov, 19 December 2011. "Almost four in five Veterans Health Administration patients who use personal electronic medical records would like to be able to share them with someone outside the VA system, a Stanford University survey has found..."
Added: 22 December 2011;
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- Open Innovation for Heroes – Introducing the Veterans Job Bank
- Posted by Aneesh Chopra. Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog, November 7, 2011. "Today, the Obama Administration launched the Veterans Job Bank, a new search tool designed to help connect veterans with employers. The Job Bank works by bringing jobs listings directly to veterans—instead of the other way around—via a search widget that provides a single window into the myriad job boards, social media platforms, and corporate employment sites that are currently spread across the Internet. The search widget is powered by a new open Web standard, the JobPosting schema, designed by a voluntary network of job search and technology companies and supported by schema.org—a collaboration among Bing, Google, and Yahoo to make structured data on the Web easier to find..."
Added: 10 November 2011;
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- VA's mobile strategy aims for flexibility, multiple devices
- By Jared Serbu. Federal News Radio, Thursday - 3 November 2011. "There's been a lot of buzz around the Veterans Affairs Department's adoption of iPhones and iPads. But VA officials say they're being careful not to permanently tie themselves to Apple's platform — nor anyone else's. A request for information VA released to industry in late October contemplates a rollout of up to 100,000 tablet devices inside the department. They'll include iPads, but not just iPads. The department wants the mobile-device management system that will support the devices to be able to handle Android and Windows-based tablets and phones as well, and VA plans to buy some of each..."
Added: 9 November 2011;
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- VA CIO forecasts in-house mobile apps store
- By Bob Brewin. NextGov, 28 September 2011. "Veterans Affairs Department Chief Information Officer Roger Baker envisions development of an in-house application store for mobile computing, he said Wednesday at a press briefing, where he also announced that VA is on course to open up its network to smartphones and tablet computers by Monday..."
Added: 29 September 2011;
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- Going Mobile
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 6 September 2011. "Doctors at Veterans Affairs Department medical centers will be able to pull up patient records on smartphones and tablets starting in October, and some top VA officials already are using the mobile devices for nonclassified work. Medical providers at VA's 152 hospitals had been lobbying for years to incorporate mobile devices into their daily rounds, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker says, but until recently security experts told him devices such as Apple's iPhone and iPad and Google's Android weren't secure enough for veterans' personal information. With the popularity of the devices growing, though, Baker decided he had to figure out a way to "accept the risk" or VA doctors and residents would figure out how to use them anyway..."
Added: 8 September 2011;
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- Department of Veterans Affairs releases progressive, structured social media policy
- by Alex Howard. Gov20.Govfresh, August 16, 2011. "In 2011, it might feel a little late for federal agencies to be issuing social media policies. How governments use social media has shifted from a niche concern, debated by new media and policy wonks, to an issue that makes international headlines when global leaders alternately decry or celebrate the impact of connection technologies upon their countries. Think again. As anyone who has worked in a federal bureaucracy will tell you, squaring usage policies with rules, regulations and laws is a fundamental need if there's going to be any progress towards 21st century governance..."
Added: 24 August 2011;
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- Veterans Affairs Social Media Policy - Use of Web-based Collaboration Technologies - in pdf format (83kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Department of Veterans Affairs VA Directive 6515. Washington, DC 20420 Transmittal Sheet, June 28, 2011. "... This Directive provides policy for all Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offices and employees regarding the use of Web-based resources and tools to facilitate collaboration, outreach, communication, and information sharing at VA. These web-based collaborative tools include social media such as wikis, blogs, mashups, folksonomies, Web feeds (such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds), and forums (such as Facebook, chat rooms), and collaborative tools such as Microsoft SharePoint. Properly used, these tools can significantly enhance VA’s mission effectiveness..."
Added: 18 August 2011;
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