VA HR officials support bill to overhaul agency’s 16-year old pay model for doctors
Top human resources officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs say a bipartisan bill lifting pay caps for VA doctors and other health care providers would help keep the agency…
An AI model predicting acute kidney injury works, but not without some tweaking
In 2019, Google AI subsidiary DeepMind used a large dataset of patient records from the Veterans Health Administration to develop a predictive model for acute kidney injury—a potentially fatal condition whose…
Montana Backs Away From Innovative Hospital Payment Model. Other States Are Watching.
Katheryn Houghton Montana is signaling it might step away from an innovative way of setting the prices its public employee health plan pays hospitals for services, an approach that has…
Evaluating a new model for funding rural heal
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Community hospitals are a vital source of healthcare for rural populations, yet many rural hospitals across the United States are in financial distress. Over the last…
Biden’s Budget Focuses on Making Agencies a ‘Model Employer’
President Biden’s budget request for fiscal 2023 seeks to tackle some of the federal government’s most longstanding problems: hiring and human capital management. The issue of federal human capital management…