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The article presents a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Veterans' Affairs (VA) health care. Topics discussed include responsibility of VA medical centers to ensure providers deliver safe care to patients; use of National Practitioner Data Bank to obtain information on a provider’s history of substandard care and misconduct; and importance of VA medical care centers to review the clinical care and provide documentation.

The article discusses the U.S. Department of Defense' use of telehealth across its forces in the fiscal year 2016. Topics discussed includes percentage of providing and purchase of real time telehealth service encounters, number of military treatment facilities providing synchronous and asynchronous telehealth service to active duty personnel, and plan of expanding the use of telehealth across forces.

The article discusses the study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on medical care for women veterans. The study reportedly involved an examination of Veterans Administration (VA) medical centers' compliance with requirements for care and of sex-specific care for women veterans. Also discussed are GAO's recommendations for VA to improve services for female veterans.

The article offers information on a report conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the oversight of primary care by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Topics discussed include use of VA data for management of primary care, review of expenditure data to monitor primary care management by medical facilities, and the need for improvement of primary care service delivery.

The article presents a Report to Congressional Requesters by United States Government Accountability Office titled "VA Health Care: Additional Guidance, Training, and Oversight Needed to Improve Clinical Contract Monitoring." The report provides information on the contracts associated with Veteran Affairs health care and the performance of contractors providing health care for Veterans Affairs offices.

The article discusses the provision of health care services to over 281,000 women veterans by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in 2008. It reveals that VA needs to revise policies and improve processes to make services available. It provides recommendations to better ensure that women veterans have access to health care services that meet their needs and to strengthen oversight of the services delivered to women veterans at VA facilities.

The article focuses on the implementation of TRICARE beneficiary and provider surveys in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). It mentions that a higher percentage of nonenrolled beneficiaries in surveyed areas where TRICARE Prime is offered experienced problems accessing care from network than beneficiaries in surveyed areas where TRICARE Prime is not offered. It also states that beneficiaries rated their health care satisfaction similarly to other commercial health care plans.

The article focuses on a study done by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the post-deployment health reassessment (PDHRA) program implemented by the Department of Defense (DOD) for servicemembers who returned from deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. It reports on the findings of GAO related to various policies of the PDHRA and how the DOD monitors the administration of the PDHRA, and discusses its recommendations to help DOD identify health concerns of servicemembers.

The article reports on the evaluation conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the progress made by the Dept. of Defense (DOD) and Dept. of Veterans Affairs' (VA) in developing policies for the care, management and transition of recovering servicemembers. GAO assessed their compliance of the requirements under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (NDAA 2008). It also explores the challenges they encountered during the development of these policies.

The article examines the efficiency of the U.S. Army's Warrior Transition Units (WTU) in providing outpatient case management for servicemembers. It states each servicemember in a WTU is assigned to a Triad Care who provide case management services to ensure continuity of care. However, it suggests that staffing ratios for the WTU at Walter Reed Army Medical Center were not revised to decrease the number of servicemembers assigned to staff members.

The article focuses on a report related to the study, on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)'s improved health care, by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The report evaluated the efficacy of improved staffing methods and more alternate and flexible work schedules in enhancing the recruitment and retention of inpatient nurses. GAO found that VA should develop an action plan to implement a new nurse staffing system for better patient care tasks performed by registered nurses.

The article reports that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) health care facilities have initiated action to provide language access services and culturally appropriate care to the people. This step has been taken following the challenges faced by VA in bridging language and cultural barriers as it seeks to provide health services to a diverse population in terms of race, ethnicity and sex.