Across the entirety of the United States Government, there is no priority more imperative than that of providing the highest-quality care to our nation’s Veterans with the world-class benefits and services they have rightfully earned. This ever-important and rapidly evolving mission set of the US Department of Veterans Affairs has experienced numerous changes and updates over the past year as a result of transformative change across heal...

AFCEA Bethesda is proud to bring you our 13th Annual Health IT Summit reimagined as a series of agency-focused events. Join us each Tuesday in March for Health IT March Forward, an entire month of cutting-edge information about today’s digital health IT innovations. ___________________________________ Health IT transformation has been high on the agenda for government healthcare in recent years, and the COVID-19 outbreak accelerated digi...

As information technology advances in the digital age, so too does the health sector’s ability to provide services, care for patients and fight illness in new, innovative ways. This has been spotlighted more recently with technology playing a central role on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19. For instance, today the health community can use data to track the spread of disease, use telehealth to reach patients at any time, anyw...

If there was ever a question about the role of information technology in healthcare, the COVID-19 pandemic has answered it emphatically. Quickly analyzing large data sets and mapping the locations of cases around the world requires scale and power. Federal hospital systems (VA, Indian Health and Military Health System) are large users of the technology and the Department of Health and Human Services and its research centers fund research on a...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns. New Dates: 10/11-10/14/2020 Aerospace Medical Association 91st Annual Scientific Meeting - Optimizing Human Performance via Selection and Training This year’s theme is “Optimizing Human Performance via Selection & Training.” Aerospace Medicine rests on a foundation of traditional clinical medicine but goes well beyond....

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns. New Dates: 7/8-7/9/2020 The 18th Annual DoD/VA & Government HIT Summit is designed as a “Town Hall” style forum that focuses on the DoD, VA and Federal’s efforts at facilitating an affordable, interoperable and modernized health IT environment. This event will discuss acquisition priorities and current innovations in t...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. In person event has been postponed until November, 2020. Back with its 11th iteration, the VA Healthcare Summit is gathering senior veteran healthcare officials and solution providers alike in order to discuss the latest developments, technologies, and strategies necessary to strengthen the VA Healthcare system. The VA Healthcare S...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns. Please visit our FAQ for more details on how this decision was reached. HIMSS20 is the leading health information and technology conference, bringing together nearly 45,000 professionals from 90+ countries for the education, innovation and collaboration they need to transform health around the world through information and technology- all at o...

The federal government plays a dominant role in healthcare through its two major hospital systems (VA and Military Health System) and the funding of health sciences research by the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS, DOD and VA all are modernizing their systems, and increasingly looking to apply artificial intelligence to their massive health datasets. Attend this Workshop to learn how new technologies are transforming health initiat...

2019 Theme — Creating the Healthiest Nation: For science. For action. For health. As public health professionals in the 21st century, we strive to create the healthiest nation. We build on three core principles that guide our work — science, to identify ways to prevent and treat disease, and to make the healthy choice the easy choice; action, to use our minds, our hearts, our feet, our experience and our diversity, collectively, to...