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Veterans get free ID monitoring in wake of breach

News The US Department of Veteran Affairs announced on Wednesday it has accepted an offer from an analytics company to monitor veterans' personal data for free, following the theft of a device containing personal information on about 26.5 million...

Tags: veterans, data breach

[11 Aug 2006]

The Potential Cost of Meeting Demand for Veterans' Health Care

whitepaper In recent years, increasing numbers of veterans have turned to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for medical care, responding in part to an easing of eligibility rules in the mid- 1990s that opened up the system to veterans who previously...

Tags: human capital management, care, veterans, medical care

[05 Jul 2005]

Transforming Government: The Revitalization of the Veterans Health Administration

whitepaper This report describes and analyzes the transformation of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), one of the country's largest organizational transformations in recent years. The goal of the transformation was to create an organization that could...

Tags: performance budgeting and management, care, health, health care

[27 Dec 2004]

The Power of Frontline Workers in Transforming Government: The Upstate New York Veterans Healthcare Network

whitepaper The organization examined was a single health service network within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the Upstate New York Veterans Health Network, which allowed its work force to become more entrepreneurial and independent in performing...

Tags: enterprise architecture, health, entrepreneurial, veterans

[27 Dec 2004]

Jupitermedia Case Study: Southern Arizona Veterans Administration Health Care System

whitepaper In southern Arizona, the Veterans Administration Health Care System keeps costs down and care levels high by providing physicians, nurses, and pharmacists with patient records at their fingertips. The Southern Arizona VA Health Care System keeps...

Tags: thin clients, health, care, health care

[18 Jan 2005]

Procurement Preferences for Small Business Concerns Owned and Controlled by Service-Disabled Veterans

whitepaper On December 16, 2003, the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003was enacted amending the Small Business Act to establish a procurement program for Small Business Concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.

Tags: procurement and sourcing, owned, act, small business

[21 Jun 2005]

Veterans Hospital Improves Patient Care with Wireless Mobile Device-Enabled Solution

whitepaper Veterans Administration Healthcare System anticipates improving care for diabetic patients. Learn how The U.S.

Tags: wireless lan, healthcare, care, administration

[24 Mar 2004]

CeBIT Update: Past comes back to haunt US Robotics <strong>veterans</strong>

CeBIT Update: Past comes back to haunt US Robotics veterans

News The two USR veterans - who left the company after the 3Com acquisition in 1997 - also spotted that much of the product packaging is still branded 3Com. The stand was the first public outing for US Robotics (USR) Europe.

[29 Mar 2001]

Electronic Government: Smart Card Usage Is Advancing Among Federal Agencies, Including the Department of Veterans Affairs

whitepaper As the unique properties and capabilities of smart cards have become more apparent, federal agencies, including the Office of Management and Budget, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the General Services Administration, have...

Tags: smart cards, card, smart card, administration

[30 Aug 2005]

75-Year Pay-As-You-Go Proposal Could Adversely Affect Social Security, Medicare, SSI, Veterans' Disability, and Other Programs

whitepaper Action to address projected increases in the costs of Social Security and healthcare entitlements in coming decades will ultimately be necessary. However, the ideological and unbalanced nature of this proposal - with its exemption of all tax cuts...

Tags: financial management, tax, social security, healthcare

[20 May 2005]

Hard drive goes awol with US vets' data

News The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched an investigation into a portable hard drive that went missing late last month from an Alabama medical facility and may contain personal data on as many as 48,000 veterans.

Tags: veterans, data loss

[06 Feb 2007]

Technology Helps VHA Put Patient Safety First

whitepaper The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), with an estimated 172 hospitals, is dedicated to providing the best possible care to America's veterans. VHA decided it was necessary to nationally deploy a system that would improve patient care/patient...

Tags: wireless lan

[24 Feb 2004]

Cisco's Content Networking Solutions Enable the Department of Veteran Affairs to Deliver Training Quickly and Effectively via Video on Demand and Live Broadcasts

whitepaper The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) continually seeks to increase the customer focus in VA and provide better, more responsive service to veterans and their families in more resource-efficient ways.

Tags: ip technologies

[24 Feb 2004]

Enterprise Architecture: Strategy, Governance, & Implementation

whitepaper This paper presents the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Enterprise Architecture strategy that was developed and unanimously approved by the VA Enterprise Architecture Innovation Team. Established by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, this team...

Tags: enterprise architecture, enterprise architecture, veterans, governance

[14 Jul 2005]

Standardizing Service Delivery with Seamless Integration

whitepaper Veterans Affairs Canada provides benefits and services to more than 210,000 veterans at an annual cost of $1.8 billion. Veterans Affairs Canada needed an integrated information solution for administering economic support, disability pensions, and...

Tags: crm

[24 Feb 2004]

Affairs' Model for a Secure Enterprise

whitepaper The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Cyber and Information Security (OCIS) has the mission to build a centralized cyber and information security enterprise to ensure protection of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the...

Tags: cyber security, federal, cyber, veterans

[01 Dec 2004]

US vets sue government over data theft

News The US Department of Veterans Affairs has been hit with a class-action lawsuit following the theft last month of a device containing personal information on about 26.5 million veterans. Five organisations and several individuals have asked the US...

Tags: vets, veterans, data breach, data theft

[07 Jun 2006]

Windows Vista name spat gives Microsoft a headache

News These include two non-profit groups - The Vista Software Alliance (VA) and Worldvista - that provide specialist software called Vista to hospitals, nursing homes and clinics which care for US military veterans.

Tags: veterans, vista, windows, microsoft

[03 Aug 2005]

ID theft fears for over 100,000 Floridians

News The US Department of Veterans Affairs is still recovering from the theft of a laptop and external hard disk drive that exposed the identities of 26.5 million veterans. A US Department of Transportation laptop with personal information on 133,000...

[14 Aug 2006]

Hacker exposes 26,000 to ID fraud risk

News The most high-profile news, by far, came from the US Department of Veterans Affairs. That agency reported late last month that personal data on as many as 26.5 million veterans - a category later revised to include nearly two million active-duty...

Tags: data breach, id fraud

[23 Jun 2006]

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