The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is on a multi-year IT modernization journey – harnessing the power of new and emerging technologies to achieve mission-driven innovations, enhanced security, and delivery of improved access and care for millions of beneficiaries. CMS has done extensive work to date in cloud enabling applications and creating user friendly tools and enhancing security. The agency is now embarking on its...

Customer expectations are rising. Today, patients expect healthcare to be convenient, accessible and delivered seamlessly. The need to provide high-quality personalized care has never been greater. Patients want convenience, personalization and accessibility in the same way they receive it with online shopping. This need comes at a time where the providers, technology firms, payers, life science services, etc. are experiencing workforce short...

This Summit is now in it’s fifth year and is produced in partnership between ACT-IAC and the HIMSS NCA Chapter. With transitions occurring in healthcare, are you wondering what changes are being planned for the future, in 2022, 2025, 2030 and beyond? Healthcare landscape is ever-changing. From the many articles written, healthcare in the next five to ten years will be delivered through integrated ecosystems that include updated policies,...

U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer to present how HHS AI Strategy and Implementation Plans About the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS): HHS is the U.S. Government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiati...

VA Initiatives for Women Veterans Women consist of almost 2 million or about 10% of the total current veteran population, and the number is expected to continue to rise. Recent legislation, both the John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Bill and Deborah Sampson Act, is working to bolster services for women veterans in areas such as counseling, women health providers, retrofitting VA facilities, and more. Please join us for a VA Federal Insi...

DESCRIPTION Much of life involves obstacles and challenges that are meant to wear everyone (government, industry, and individuals) down but yet teach us a lesson. However, resiliency over time becomes very important and can be strengthened as we continue to find solutions and gain intelligence from lessons learned. Today, after over a year of a pandemic, the health ecosystem, the mass vaccinations, and health care in general still continue to...

The United States transitioned from just a recurring flu season to a full pandemic with the infiltration of the Corona Virus. This pandemic caused the healthcare system to turn upside down and develop new pathways, processes, and techniques for not only tending to and treating the COVID patients, but also treating the general populations with the daily medical and surgical conditions. So many changes occurred in the healthcare system in a very...

The Department of Veterans Affairs provides comprehensive health services to eligible military veterans at VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the country; several non-healthcare benefits including disability compensation, vocational rehabilitation, educational assistance, home loans, and life insurance; and provides burial and memorial benefits to eligible veterans and family members at 135 national cemeteries. The VA...

For three days in October, forward-thinking leaders of government and industry will converge in Philadelphia to network, share, learn, collaborate, and together imagine and invent their future. Our goal: harness creative thinking, innovation and technology to form a more perfect union of government and industry, and forge actionable approaches and practices that maximize the value we provide to our nation’s citizens. IMAGINE NATION ELC 2...

See the newest innovations in the public sector on May 23, 2019, in DC! These Top 40 innovations are improving services to citizens and government operations at the federal, state and local levels. Gain insights to innovate at your organization by talking to #GovInnovators who solved similar challenges. ACT-IAC collected over 200 nominations, narrowed them down to the Top 40 finalists and invited them to exhibit their innovations at the sixth...