The Transformation Agenda: Emerging Strategies for the Next Wave of Health IT Transformation is on the agenda in government healthcare. Digital services, automation, analytics and artificial intelligence are just a few of the technologies that are beginning to have a major impact on nearly every aspect of healthcare, from medical research to operational management and patient care. But transformation requires more than new technology. AFCEA Be...

A skilled workforce. Transformation technologies. Secure and effective information sharing. These are the drivers of modernization in the law enforcement and public safety (LEAPS) community. This is modernization in the fullest sense of the word - the development of technologies, policies and processes that address long-standing obstacles, eliminate inefficiencies, and accelerate the delivery of mission services. With its 11th annual LEAPS Tec...

The new generation of automation capabilities—driven by DevOps, AI, robotic process automation and related technologies—is expected to play a major role in IT modernization efforts across government in the coming years, with agencies and their industry partners ramping up efforts to train and recruit subject matter experts. That is why this panel on automation is the first installment of the Young AFCEA Bethesda Professional develo...

In many sectors, the goals of IT modernization are framed primarily in traditional IT terms, with an emphasis on efficiency, performance, and security. In healthcare, that’s just the starting point. Ultimately, healthcare organizations are looking to drive improvements not just in the IT infrastructure but in the management and delivery of healthcare operations and patient care. AFCEA Bethesda’s 11th annual Health IT Summit will br...

There’s a good reason that the Report on Federal IT Modernization identifies the cloud as an essential platform for IT in the years ahead. Cloud has the potential not only to improve the efficiency of existing services, but also to enable the development of a new generation of services. But there are still a lot of questions to be answered. To fully leverage cloud computing, agencies need to rethink their IT architecture, address lingeri...

Law enforcement and public safety (LEAPS) communities are working together to increase efficiencies and improve processes. There are many risk management considerations for modernizing and applying new technology approaches in order to get to better solutions and timelier outcomes. Leaders need to be aware of current thinking in digital and data trust, cloud-based services, and analytic and machine learning as they prepare for the next generat...

A data analytics initiative is not just about the data. It’s about putting in place the technology, policies, and processes needed to leverage the full benefits of an analytics program. It’s about removing the barriers to identifying and sharing potentially valuable data streams. And it’s about understanding the organizational and cultural challenges of institutionalizing analytics as a discipline. This event will bring toget...

AFCEA Bethesda’s annual Health IT Day brings together more than 700 senior executives and IT professionals from across industry and government to discuss healthcare initiatives in civilian and military health. EVENT HIGHLIGHTS: Keynote presentations and panel discussions from key stakeholders at critical agencies such as FDA, CDC, CMS, NIH, ONC, HHS, VA and DOD Breakout sessions discussing challenges, trends and initiatives between gover...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...

The White House American Technology Council (ATC) IT Modernization Report released August 30 emphasizes the need for updated IT infrastructure and shared services. Join AFCEA Bethesda for part two of the Chapter’s “New Faces, New Places” 90-Day sprint series with a focus on new faces in federal IT Modernization. Senior executives from across Federal civilian agencies will discuss: Adoption of cloud and collaboration tools Mod...