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The Defense Health Agency is laying the groundwork for a major data management contract strategy to unify health datasets across DoD and VA environments, evaluating hosting models from federated architectures to DoD enterprise cloud infrastructure.

The Social Security Administration has expanded its integration with the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) to automate medical record retrieval. By leveraging health data superhighways, the agency aims to streamline disability claims adjudication and reduce processing times by up to 50%.

The Defense Health Agency is calling on commercial vendors to overhaul aging test infrastructure supporting PEO DHMS. By transitioning to firm-fixed-price, outcome-based contracts, the agency seeks to eliminate bloated, legacy hardware footprints and accelerate health IT deployments.

A new Government Accountability Office report examines the operational benefits and enterprise risks of integrating AI-augmented wearables into clinical workflows, presenting federal leaders with key policy options to overcome device reliability, cybersecurity, and data integration challenges.