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The Day a Doctor Said Yes
October 27, 2026
The Day a Doctor Said Yes Twenty-four veterans at the Martinsburg VA Medical Center died in 2022 and 2023 with a community care consult still unscheduled,...
Count the Doors
October 23, 2026
Count the Doors Part 4 of a series on DHA's FY27 campaign plan, one line of effort at a time. It is two in the morning at Eglin Air Force Base and a child...
The Blood Clock
October 20, 2026
The Blood Clock Part 3 of a series on DHA's FY27 campaign plan, one line of effort at a time. DHA's FY27 campaign plan promises that 90 percent of the blood...
Who Holds the Hospital
October 16, 2026
Who Holds the Hospital Part 2 of a series on DHA's FY27 campaign plan, one line of effort at a time. DHA's FY27 campaign plan asks its largest hospitals to...
The Waiting Days
October 13, 2026
The Waiting Days Part 1 of a series on DHA's FY27 campaign plan, one line of effort at a time. DHA's FY27 campaign plan promises to cut the days service...
The Recapture Year
October 2, 2026
The Recapture Year Fiscal 2027 opened Thursday on a stopgap that runs to December 11. Read the Director's four lines of effort beside the Military Health...
The Floor at Winston-Salem
September 29, 2026
The Floor at Winston-Salem In May 2012 VA's Inspector General walked the sixth floor of the Winston-Salem regional office and found 37,000 veterans' claims...
A Question From the Floor
September 25, 2026
A Question From the Floor On September 15, in the telehealth and patient portal session of the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office's annual...
VA's Manual Tells Raters to Enter Service That Never Happened
September 15, 2026
VA's Manual Tells Raters to Enter Service That Never Happened Executive Order 14426 gives the Department of War 30 days to send every separating service...
The Scorecard DHA Already Publishes
September 11, 2026
The Scorecard DHA Already Publishes Vice Adm. Darin Via's line that data is the Defense Health Agency's North Star got loose this week. The strategy...
The Man Who Publishes His Plan
September 4, 2026
The Man Who Publishes His Plan This week Matt Clark told his LinkedIn network he had accepted the job of Assistant Director for Research, Development, and...
LinkedIn found out yesterday. Premium knew in July.
September 3, 2026
Yesterday, Matt Clark announced on LinkedIn that he officially accepted the role of Assistant Director for Research, Development, and Acquisition and...
The Keystone
August 28, 2026
The Keystone On October 3, 2025, three days after a Navy reservist finished more than 1,400 consecutive days on active duty, the Defense Health Agency told...
Filed Under Document Drafting
August 25, 2026
Filed Under Document Drafting VA's Inspector General reported in June that clinicians were drafting patient notes with two generative AI chat tools, neither...
The Marine Corps Answered Him First
August 18, 2026
The Marine Corps Answered Him First On August 11 in New Orleans, the Director of the Defense Health Agency told an industry audience that the character of...
A Plate Read Launches an Aircraft
August 11, 2026
A Plate Read Launches an Aircraft Flock's drone lifts off a dock on three triggers, and the third is a license plate hit. VA has bought the plate readers....
The Pentagon Asked
August 7, 2026
The Pentagon Asked In April I wrote that the ecosystem would either build a shared evidence layer before the Pentagon asked for one, or scramble after. On...
Ten Years to Build It. Ten Months to Field It.
August 4, 2026
Ten Years to Build It. Ten Months to Field It. On July 27, the Army approved BATDOK-J for Army-wide fielding as a download to hardware Soldiers already...
Seven Steps to a Magnet
July 31, 2026
Seven Steps to a Magnet Federal law has looked at one of them. On January 1, 2027, it looks at all seven, and the two exceptions holding medical equipment...
The Memo Never Says "Veteran"
July 24, 2026
The Memo Never Says "Veteran" The White House released two documents on July 21. The report names a million veterans' genomic records as an asset to be...
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