With a new Administration focused on Making America Healthy Again, what is the vision, role, and priorities of federal health agencies? How will the underlying business model governing the healthcare ecosystem and its incentives need to change to meet this vision? What structural and organizational changes need to occur within agencies? How will this change expectations for individual, State, and Federal roles in health care and disease prevention? What will these changes mean for federal research and Veteran care? This panel will explore these questions and what the changes might mean for technology needs, workforce, and industry partnerships.

This session will provide insights into current legislative priorities and oversight efforts shaping the future of veterans’ health care. Attendees will gain a bipartisan view into how Congress is addressing issues affecting veterans’ access to care, mental health services, and modernization of the VA health system. Panelists will also discuss emerging challenges, cross-agency collaboration, and what to expect from Capitol Hill in the year ahead.

Healthcare delivery is constantly evolving and looking at a range of technologies to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and better manage patients’ illnesses and health risks in a more personalized manner. Digital health technologies can include telemedicine, wearable devices, electronic health records, augmented and virtual reality, AI/ML and data analytics, smart devices, digital experience, and innovative approaches to regulatory and administrative healthcare processes. This panel will explore the state of digital health efforts across the federal health landscape, including an understanding of the opportunities, challenges, use cases, and the policy and governance needed around data to accelerate access and advancement of digital health technology.  

Want to know what to expect in FedHealth procurement from the new Administration and how to prepare your company to pursue work? This panel will explore trends with the goal of helping industry understand how the current policy and organizational changes at FedHealth agencies will influence procurement offices, priorities, and strategies. Speakers will discuss what agencies are buying, who and what is driving acquisition strategy decisions, planned improvements to forecasting tools, new or evolving evaluation methodologies, preferred contracting vehicles, contracting constraints, industry engagement, and other efforts to improve the speed and efficiency of acquisitions.