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Electronic Health Records: DOD Has Deployed New System but Challenges Remain

GAO-24-106187
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the Federal EHR Modernization Office to identify and address specific barriers to maximizing integration at the FHCC, consistent with the FHCC executive agreement. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Veterans Community Care Program: Additional Information on VA Statutory Appointment Timeliness Measurements is Needed

GAO-24-105308
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of VA should ensure that VA disclose, to any users of its Isakson-Roe Act bi-weekly updates to the community care appointment scheduling timeliness measurements, the quantity of referrals used to generate each measurement. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Veterans Community Care Program: Additional Information on VA Statutory Appointment Timeliness Measurements is Needed

GAO-24-105308
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of VA should ensure VA engages with congressional oversight committees on its limitations in collecting data on referral acceptance dates to determine any potential refinements to the Isakson-Roe Act requirements or seek legislative relief as appropriate. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Service Members Transitioning to Civilian Life: Agencies Can Improve Warm Handovers for Additional Assistance

GAO-24-106248
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure the Undersecretary for Benefits, Veterans Benefits Administration coordinates with DOD through the Transition Assistance Program interagency partnership to identify criteria and standards for the TSMRC pilot, to determine whether and how to scale the piloted approach into the overall warm handover process. (Recommendation 7)
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VA agreed with this recommendation. The agency plans to use a DOD assessment to identify budget requirements and resources to fund its pilot at all military installations. We will monitor the agency's efforts to address this recommendation.

VA Health Care: Opportunities Exist to Further Meet Student Veterans' Mental Health Needs

GAO-24-106620
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Department of Veterans Affairs Under Secretary for Health should communicate comprehensive information across VHA's health care systems on a regular basis about when and how to implement a Veterans Integration to Academic Leadership program. Such communication could include distributing a memorandum or guidance to health care systems. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Veterans Affairs: Improvements Needed in Estimating Funding for Potential Future Health Emergencies

GAO-24-106359
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Department of Veterans Affairs The VA Undersecretary for Health should update VHA's standard operating procedure to require documenting and sharing with internal VHA stakeholders the rationale for key decisions made when developing the EHCPM. This should include documentation of key decisions made that led from the development of the initial EHCPM scenario through the scenario ultimately used to develop the President's budget request for VA. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Veterans Affairs The VA Undersecretary for Health should enhance VA's analytical modeling capacity to better enable VHA to prepare estimates of the supplemental funding needed to address catastrophic events, such as pandemics, natural disasters, and terrorist acts. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Federal Software Licenses: Agencies Need to Take Action to Achieve Additional Savings

GAO-24-105717
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure that the agency tracks software licenses that are currently in use for its widely used licenses by, at a minimum, developing and implementing procedures for tracking license usage. (Recommendation 11)
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The Department of Veterans Affairs agreed with this recommendation and stated that it will provide the detailed actions planned to address this recommendation by July 2024. When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Federal Software Licenses: Agencies Need to Take Action to Achieve Additional Savings

GAO-24-105717
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure that the agency compares the inventories of software licenses that are currently in use with information on purchased licenses to identify opportunities to reduce costs and better inform investment decision making for its widely used licenses on a regular basis. At a minimum, it should develop and implement procedures for comparing the inventories of licenses in use to purchase records. (Recommendation 12)
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The Department of Veterans Affairs agreed with this recommendation and stated that it will provide the detailed actions planned to address this recommendation by July 2024. When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

VA Acquisition Management: Oversight of Service Contracts Needing Heightened Management Attention Could Be Improved

GAO-24-106312
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the Senior Procurement Executive to develop policies and procedures for identifying and documenting contracts involving functions needing heightened management attention and fully implement OFPP Policy Letter 11-01, including, but not limited to, establishing when use of the department-wide checklist is required and specifying the analysis needed to support completion of the checklist. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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