SBA Hosts Veterans Small Business Advisory Committee Meetings March 7 & 8
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Interagency Task Force (IATF) on Veterans Small Business Development and the Advisory Committee on Veterans Business Affairs (ACVBA) will hold public meetings March 7 and 8, respectively, at SBA headquarters...
Army Upgrades Frontline Surgical Teams
The 745th Forward Surgical Team, a detachment of the 31st Combat Support Hospital, became the Army’s first unit to upgrade into a Forward Resuscitation and Surgical Team at Fort Bliss, Texas, Feb. 6. The unit converted as part of a coordinated medical materiel...
No Referrals Needed for West Region Prime Users Thanks to Backlog
Tricare Prime users in the West region who need civilian specialty care won’t need an official Tricare referral through March 18, Tricare officials said, thanks to problems stemming from a series of changes rolled out Jan. 1. Typically, Tricare Prime users must...
VA Partners With DeepMind to Build Machine Learning Tools to Identify Health Risks for Veterans
Today the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it has approved a medical research partnership with DeepMind to address the global issue of patient deterioration during hospital care, which accounts for 11 percent of in-hospital deaths around the world....