A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spent the majority of its $36.7 billion in COVID-19 relief funding to address three key areas – with digital services and IT efforts being two of them.
The agency’s focus on technology capabilities during the pandemic came in many different forms, from ramping up telework and telehealth efforts to strengthening its IT infrastructure to handle increased bandwidth requirements.
The other key area of spending was veterans’ health care, including paying for veterans to receive care at non-VA facilities during the pandemic due to the increased demand for emergency and urgent care… Read the full article here.
