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By Natalie Alms   A bipartisan bill introduced in the House on Friday takes aim at updating the process for agencies’ creation of congressionally mandated performance plans. Agencies are required to make publically available performance plans annually that lay out their strategic goals and objectives. The law mandating this process requires agencies’ chief human capital officers to help create the plans, but Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), chair of the Subcommittee on Government Operations of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and Jody Hice (R-Ga.), the panel’s ranking member, wan...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will pause the rollout of its Cerner electronic health record until it reviews the program and shares the results with Congress.   Agency officials told the House Subcommittee on Technology Modernization at a Wednesday hearing that they would not go live with the EHR at a second site before a strategic review announced this past month is completed. "VA is committed, in partnership with the Department of Defense, to leading American healthcare forward, realizing the full promise of a modern, integrated record to cultivate the health and wellbeing of ...

President Joe Biden (Photo via whitehouse.gov) The Biden administration this past Friday released a letter outlining President Joe Biden's request for fiscal year 2022 discretionary funding in advance of Congress's annual appropriations and budget process.   The letter, addressed to Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, along with several other top federal lawmakers, includes a range of proposals that reflect Biden's broader agenda.   "The consequences of this broad disinvestment are plain to see. We know that anticipating, preparing for, and fighting a global pande...

Presiding: Chair Frank Mrvan The Subcommittee on Technology Modernization will hold a hearing entitled "Strategic Review: Evaluating Concerns About the Ongoing Implementation of the Electronic Health Record Modernization Program" This meeting will be livestreamed on Youtube and Facebook.  Check back for live video of this hearing.

The head of U.S. Veterans Affairs was joined Wednesday by Montana’s congressional delegation as he capped off a three-day visit to the state at Fort Harrison VA Medical Center in Helena, where he heard from the public about their concerns and what the VA could be doing better. Denis McDonough, appointed by President Joe Biden and confirmed to the post in February, said the Montana VA “does a lot of things really well … and one of them is this team works well together.” He noted a program in which nurses from the Montana VA system were deployed into community hospitals, ...