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DoD/VA & Government Health IT Summit

  • October 22-23, 2025
  • National Housing Center, Washington DC

Event Overview

DSI’s 29th DoD/VA & Government HIT Summit will bring together leaders from across the VA, DHA, DoD, federal government, and relevant industry stakeholders to improve the delivery of lifelong patient-centered healthcare for military members and Veterans.  The October 2025 Summit will explore the role of health IT in advancing the interoperability, delivery, accessibility, affordability, and resiliency of healthcare.

October 2025 Speakers Include:

  • Pat Flanders, SES,

    PEO for Medical Systems and CIO, Defense Health Agency

  • Kathy Berst

    Acting Assistant Director Support/Component Acquisition Executive, Defense Health Agency

  • Tom Hines

    Chief Information Security Officer, Defense Health Agency

  • Sushant Govindan

    Acting Executive Director, AI and Emerging Technology, VHA Digital Health Office

  • Susan Kirsh, MD, SES,

    Deputy Assistant Undersecretary for Health for Discovery, Education, Affiliate Networks, VA

About The DoD/VA & Government HIT Summit

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

  • Driving Better Outcomes with Integrated, Interoperable, and Accessible Healthcare for U.S. Veterans
  • Modernizing Military Healthcare to Enable the Continuity of Care from Active Duty Through Retirement
  • Leveraging Innovative Technologies to Improve Healthcare for Veterans
  • Aligning DHA’s Acquisition Priorities to Support Efficient, Effective Medical Care for Warfighters
  • How to Strengthen the Security of DHA’s Data and Health IT Systems
  • Modernizing DHA’s EHR Integration: Enhancing Interoperability and the Patient- Provider Experience
  • Implementing a Modernized Federal Electronic Health Record Across the VA

The 29th Annual DoD/VA & Government Health IT Summit will convene senior leaders from the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), federal government agencies, academia, and industry to drive modernizations in health information technology and shape the future of patient-centered care for military members, Veterans, and their families.

The 2025 fall Summit will highlight continued progress with the DoD’s and VA’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) modernization initiatives to improve how healthcare is delivered, accessed, and managed.  Speakers at this year’s event will share insights into the latest advancements in health technologies, products, and software that are enabling interoperability across the continuum of care.  Sessions at this year’s event will highlight recent successes and challenges in deploying, sustaining, and optimizing a unified, interoperable federal EHR that improves data sharing, strengthens care coordination, and empowers patient-centered outcomes both in the U.S. and at facilities abroad.  Leaders from across the community will discuss their vision for leveraging advanced technologies and capabilities, including AI/ML, data analytics, cybersecurity measures, to improve the responsiveness, personalization, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare for Warfighters and Veterans.

Attendees will have the opportunity to interact with and ask questions of speakers and key decision-makers who are actively shaping the future of government health IT.  Join us at the 29th DoD/VA & Government Health IT Summit this October to take part in discussions focused on driving better outcomes in health IT to transform military medicine and Veteran healthcare.

Gain Education & Insight: Walk away with knowledge gained from our senior level speakers on some of the complex challenges facing the HIT community.

Build Partnerships: The agenda is designed to allow for ample networking opportunities and the ability to discover the most up-to-date HIT initiatives and technologies.

Influence: Help foster ideas! Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. All attendees are encouraged to address our speaker faculty and each other with their questions, comments or ideas.

DSI’s Summit directly supports DoD and Government priorities by providing a conduit for officials to efficiently reach audiences outside of their respective offices that directly impact their department’s mission success, at no charge to the government, and in an efficient expenditure of time.

DSI’s Summit will provide a forum to address and improve internal and external initiatives, meet with, and hear from partner organizations, disseminate vital capability requirements to industry, increase visibility within the larger community, and generally support their mission.

The Summit is open and complimentary to all DoD and Federal employees and is considered an educational and training forum.

(Industry and academia members are charged a fee for admission)

Summit is CLOSED TO PRESS / NO RECORDINGS

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The DoD/VA & Government HIT Summit provides opportunities including exhibit space, round table discussions, product demonstrations, and networking receptions. Download the Sponsorship and Exhibiting Prospectus Here.

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