AcademyHealth is excited to once again offer the joint experience of the Health Datapalooza and the National Health Policy Conference (NHPC). Join us for three days of virtual, boundary breaking discussions about the latest and most important health policy issues facing our nation and the data and evidence that will drive innovation and help achieve our goals of better health and health care for everyone. Through a combination of online plenar...

Health IT advances are improving both patient care and the management of public health. Plus, IT modernization initiatives across government are leading to improvement in the delivery of services for remote access, medical devices, EHRs, telehealth and more. All these innovations begin with a solid infrastructure for interoperability, data management, cloud computing and more. Health-focused agencies like the departments of Veterans Affairs an...

Faced with an executive order to improve cybersecurity, agencies are introducing processes to protect their systems and networks. Amid an evolving technology landscape that incorporates more virtual and cloud environments, application development and data access off premises, securing these systems to prevent unwanted breaches is mandatory. Leaders discuss strategies in zero trust, identity access management and more to bring cybersecurity app...

Please visit our website for the most up-to-date- information! AGA is the member organization for government financial management professionals. We lead and encourage change that benefits our field and all citizens. Our training events, professional certification, publications and ongoing education help members build their skills and advance their careers. Who we are Our members work in government financial management across sectors and worldw...

A comprehensive and secure data strategy is essential for federal and state agencies to deliver on their missions. Data is the foundation for most emerging technologies and agencies are poised to transform the way they think about, manage and secure their agencies data.The SNG Live Virtual Speaker Series will gather IT decision-makers to discuss best practices and the progress they’re making around data strategy, and how it undergirds de...

The Biden Administration is committed to building a more sustainable and resilient future while tackling the climate crisis and creating jobs. This means investing in and building a resilient infrastructure that can withstand increasingly severe floods, wildfires, droughts, hurricanes, and other risks. At the same, the U.S. critical infrastructure is under attack from growing persistent and sophisticated cyber threats. High-profile attacks on...

In just a few short years, Robotic Process Automation has gone from a few scattered pilot projects to an essential tool deployed by dozens of agencies. Hundreds of thousands of staff-hours have been saved, and organizations are increasingly looking to leverage artificial intelligence to automate more-complicated workflows. Automation at scale comes with challenges, however -- from credential management to siloed systems to ensuring that outdat...

DSI’s 21st Biannual DoD/VA & GOV Health IT Summit is designed as a non-partisan educational and training “Town-Hall-style” Summit that offers a full spectrum view towards the DoD, VA, and Federal’s efforts to provide Veterans/Active-Duty high-quality healthcare, through a single, interoperable health IT ecosystem. This Summit will examine current initiatives being implemented for Veterans across the DoD & VA, fr...

We'll get insight into how cloud infrastructure development facilitates IT modernization across federal agencies during this event. Hear from federal executives on their agency’s cloud strategies and how the newly available wealth of data and analytic power is pushing new frontiers in research while improving agency services, along with how the federal government is upholding IT security amidst cloud migration. Visit bit.ly/GovCIOCloudSu...

Although it got an encouraging $1 billion funding shot in the arm from the American Rescue Plan Act in early 2020, the effort to modernize and transform an aging infrastructure remains a complicated task that takes coordination, executive buy-in and detailed security and data strategies to make it work. The $1 billion set aside for the Technology Modernization Fund in the ARP smooths some modernization budgeting issues for agencies, which have...