Nov 13, 2017
It’s been a year since the Office of Federal Procurement Policy released and accepted comments on its draft circular around category management. With little-to-no activity on the draft circular over the past year, it seems OFPP is taking a less permanent route to...
Nov 13, 2017
A new study evaluating the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) across the military health system shows that the large majority of military treatment facilities offer at least one type of CAM, and an estimated 76,000 military patients receive...
Nov 13, 2017
President Trump, who has repeatedly assailed pharmaceutical companies for the high cost of prescription medications in the United States, nominated on Monday a former executive of one of the nation’s largest drug companies to be secretary of health and human...
Nov 13, 2017
Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), together with the American Bar Association, The Veterans Consortium and National Law School Veterans Clinic Consortium, signed a Memorandum of Agreement aimed at improving Veterans’ access to free legal services. SOURCE...
Nov 13, 2017
If you are keeping score at home, chalk one up for industry in the battle to keep Amazon from dominating how agencies buy commercial products. But don’t expect this to the final score by far. The Senate convinced the House to modify the so-called “Amazon” amendment in...
Nov 12, 2017
After serving in the Navy for almost five years, Tatiana Medina said she did not receive proper treatment at Veterans Affairs medical centers in the United States after her service. Medina, who served as an operations specialist aboard the USS Mount Whitney, said she...
Nov 11, 2017
VeteranOwnedBusiness.com — in honor of its 9th Anniversary — has launched a North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Search Engine and Directory specifically of businesses owned by veterans and service disabled veterans (SDVOSBs/DVBEs). This...
Nov 11, 2017
Veterans Day, also known as Armistice Day, is celebrated each year on the 11th day of the 11th month of the year. Nov. 11 is the anniversary of the end of World War I. The Iowa Veterans Cemetery near Van Meter was once again the host of this year’s Veterans Day...
Nov 11, 2017
Americans honored their military veterans Saturday with a parade in the wintry cold of New York City, where one World War II vet thanked onlookers for remembering, and in a somber ceremony in a Texas community bloodied by a church massacre where almost half of those...
Nov 10, 2017
After months of waiting to hear details on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ plans to replace its EHR with Cerner, recently unsealed documents reveal the agency is hoping to create a single, common system between the VA and the Department of Defense. SOURCE...
Nov 9, 2017
ASRC Federal has hired former acting Military Health System CIO and retired Air Force Col. Richard “Chip” Terry as vice president and client relations executive for federal health and defense programs. SOURCE – READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT:...
Nov 9, 2017
The day when a veteran can access health information, learn more about their benefits, and search cemetery records all in one place is one step closer. According to a recent request for information from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the department is looking for...
