Events

VA 3D Printing Network Director Beth Ripley named winner of 2020 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals (Sammies).

Sep
2023

DataX Track at the International Summit for AI in Healthcare
September 6-8
View 2023 DataX Speaker Booklet

Sep
2023

CX Symposium
September 13-14

Oct
2023

VHA Innovation Experience (iEX)
2023 VHA iEX

News

An InnoVAtor learns from an instructor at Bootcamp.

Bootcamp for VA InnoVAtors Revolutionizing the Frontline

During this three-day event, more than 100 employee innovators had the chance to get to know one another, learn the fundamentals of iNET, and learn what the upcoming year will look like.

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iEX Demos Celebrate Employee-Driven Innovation

iEX Demos provided VHA employees a platform to share their experiences designing and implementing innovations, and the notable impact of their practices on Veterans across the country.

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VHA Medical Professionals attend to a Veteran’s health

Spark-Seed-Spread Brings New Cohort to Innovate Veteran Care

146 teams of employee innovators are about to be given the tools and training to further develop their innovative ideas. They are this year’s Spark-Seed-Spread Program Investees – and their work will help forge the future of Veteran care.

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A group of Innovation Specialists collaborates in an incubator setting

Incubator Series Unleashes Innovation

iNET adheres to the fundamental mantra of “start small, fail small,” not only for its iterative design approach to innovation, but also for the number of sites (34) included in the network which receive programming and funding resources to support employee-driven innovations

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Meet VHA’s Newest Innovation Fellows

VHA IE isproud to announce the Innovation Fellowship Program’s 2020 innovation fellows

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Two Innovation Specialists Discuss their innovative impact on Veteran Healthcare

MIT Catalyst Program Welcomes New IE Fellows

IE and MIT are collaborating to improve Veteran care through need-driven biomedical research and innovation initiatives. This month, the program welcomes a new cohort of MIT Catalyst Fellows, aiding its mission to increase the impact of biomedical research and create innovative solutions for unmet health care needs.

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Working with the Community to Save Veterans Lives

The VMET program assists in responding to calls involving local law enforcement interactions with veterans in crisis. This proactive outreach approach, which includes a VA clinician and VA police officer, is a first of its kind VA nationwide program to help reduce the number of veteran suicides.

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Federal Drive: Diffusion Marketplace Showcases Staff Ideas for Innovative Care

Federal News Network's Jory Heckman spoke with Diffusion of Excellence’s Blaine Fitzgerald about the Marketplace’s public launch.

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Diffusion Marketplace Open to the Public

The Diffusion Marketplace is a searchable site houses 75 innovations for the healthcare community, driving VHA's success as a learning health care system and acting as a digital storefront for innovations.

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Diffusion Academy Supports Promising Practices

Diffusion Academy brings employees with mature practices together from across VHA IE portfolios to support them in taking the next step in their work. Diffusion Academy also supported researchers from the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), offering the same training and tools during the three-day intensive collaboration.

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Private-Public Partnerships Advance Medical Innovations

Remote Temperature Monitoring for the Prevention of Diabetic Foot Ulcers is a program between VHA IE and Podimetrics. The program supplies at-risk, diabetic Veterans with SmartMats that use thermal imaging to measure the temperature of a Veteran’s foot, analyzing them for diabetic foot ulcers.

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Digital Health Symposium Brings Together Veterans and Industry Leaders

VHA and the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) brought together Veterans with technology and digital health innovators to accelerate VA’s role as a leader in advancing patient-centered digital health solutions that improve Veteran care coordination, access, and quality.

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Innovation Academy Builds Community Involvement

The VA Center for Development and Civic Engagement Innovation Academy works with a national nonprofit to sponsor high school problem-solving challenges. This Innovation Academy engages youth in volunteer service and exposes them to the work of their local VA Medical Center.

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The Innovation Experience Brought Partnerships to the Forefront

iEX showcases the impact of collaborative partnerships on innovation at VA. It also demonstrates the power of VA employees developing, implementing, and diffusing innovations and promising practices.

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MIT Catalyst Program Welcomes New IE Fellows

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Meet VHA’s Newest Innovation Fellows

VHA IE is proud to announce the Innovation Fellowship Program’s 2020 innovation fellows

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Listen: Prosthetics Care Advancing at VA

The Mobile Prosthetic and Orthotic Care program with Program Manager Danny Abrahamson and Program Coordinator Eli Kaufman has quickly turned into one of the most promising and impactful services within the VA's Office of Rural Health.

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Innovative Technologies Support Personalized Healthcare

One continuing characteristic of VA medical care is the embrace and application of innovative technologies to support the personalized healthcare of America’s Veterans.

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VA health incubator starts with disease prevention tools

VA’s new collaborative health care innovation center is initially focusing on the creation of prevention tools that predict disease and improve patient safety.

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VA’s Innovation Chief is Catalyst to Bring People, Ideas Together

The journey of Thomas Osborne, MD, into medicine was not a straight line, but it was a path that seems strangely appropriate considering his role now as Director of VA’s brand new National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation.

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Business Analytics capstone project finds better outcomes for COVID-19 patients on low dose aspirin regimen

Business Analytics capstone project finds better outcomes for COVID-19 patients on a low dose aspirin regimen

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Face of Innovation: Kalyn Essex

It’s all about people for Kalyn Essex. Whether they be her fellow airmen, fellow Veterans, fellow employees, or her students, it’s the connection she makes with people that she has always enjoyed – that human connection that led her to VA and eventually to becoming an Innovation Specialist at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (HCS).

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VA Launches Collaborative Healthcare Innovation Center in California

With the goal of taking advantage of emerging technology to improve veteran care, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently established the National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation (NCCHI) within the Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) in California.

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VA pilots first collaborative health care innovation center in Palo Alto

VA recently established the National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation (NCCHI) within the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) in California as part of the department’s strategy to advance Veteran health care services with cutting edge technology.

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VA creates, awards innovation honor for late under secretary of Health

To honor the late Under Secretary for Health Dr. Robert Jesse, the Department of Veterans Affairs named an annual award for Excellence in Innovation in his name. This year, the award went to Dr. Thomas Osborne, director of the VA National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation.

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Palarum Announces US Veterans Affairs to Evaluate Use of ‘Smart Patient Sock’ to Reduce Patient Falls

VA and Palarum, LLC, announced that they have entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Program (CRADA) to evaluate Palarum’s innovative e-wearable technology which is designed to reduce inpatient falls.

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VA joins XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance to combat COVID-19 and future outbreaks

VA announced that it has partnered with the XPRIZE Foundation’s Pandemic Alliance as part of a public and private coalition to help develop ways to address the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and subsequent global outbreaks.

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Dr. Osborne Received Inaugural Robert L. Jesse Award for Excellence in Innovation

VA presented Thomas Osborne, MD with the inaugural Under Secretary for Health Robert L. Jesse Award for Excellence in Innovation from VA. This award recognizes and honors VA employees who have demonstrated excellence and enabled the discovery and spread of healthcare innovation.

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Legacy Partners with VA to Analyze Fertility in Global War On Terror

Legacy, the leading digital male fertility clinic, announced its CRADA with VA to shed light on infertility in the military

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VA Employee Revolutionizes Ridesharing for Veterans

Boston VA's Charles Franklin worked with Innovators Network and New England Center for Innovation Excellence to design and implement a rideshare program to meet Veteran housing and employment needs.

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Study to Examine Reasons for Infertility among Recent War Veterans

Researchers announce plans for a new study to discover reasons why veterans from the recent wars are more likely to struggle with infertility than their civilian peers.

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Rideshare Program Helps Veterans Access Needed Services

Studies have found that access to reliable transportation is one of the biggest factors when it comes to escaping from poverty. To meet the needs of unsheltered veterans and those at risk of homelessness, VA has launched a nationwide rideshare program to streamline vulnerable veterans’ access to critically needed services.

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Rideshare Program Helps Veterans Find New Roads to Employment

Despite trying to find employment near her apartment, Peters found no positions that could leverage her skillset that were within walking distance from her home. Although she preferred accomplishing tasks on her own, she was willing to work with VA on one thing: a ride to her “graveyard” shift.

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