Industry brings innovation to VA’s doorstep
VA looks to engage in public-private collaborations to bring innovations to the forefront
VA recognizes the value from industry collaborators who are developing solutions on the frontier of innovation or who may have an innovation that benefits Veteran communities. Whether you’d like to collaborate on an innovation, leverage existing VA data, engage in Research, or find successful VA innovations for your own organization, VA has a number of resources to support your journey.
HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER
VA provides opportunities to engage with people, innovations, Research, and data across its network of offerings:
Collaborate on an innovation
Work with VA to innovate new products and processes. From co-designing to scaling, we can collaborate through the development cycle.
Leverage VA data
Access VA data including population statistics, quality and access to care metrics, synthetic data and more to sharpen your insights.
Harness successful VA innovations
Discover effective innovations and resources that are ready to implement at your organization.
Join VA’s Innovation Community
Find your place in our innovation community. Serve as a Subject Matter Expert or sponsor innovation events, conferences, challenges, and competitions.
Success Story Highlight
In 2021, Verinetics, an early seed-stage startup, collaborated with VA to evaluate their DispenSecur™ system at multiple VA Medical Centers. To increase transparency for Veterans being prescribed Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD), this initiative gives health-care providers access to dispensing activity records. This fosters trust with Veterans who know that their providers understand their recovery needs. DispenSecur™ reduces cost, inconvenience, and stigma for Veterans receiving MOUD.
Both VHA staff members and Veterans participated in interviews and provided feedback on the system, its clinical functionality, and applicable use cases within VHA. The next step is to continue User Experience testing with Veterans and staff members.
Collaboration Offering
- Collaboration offering
- Pilot
Parties
- Verinetics
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- 5 National VA Healthcare Sites
Status
- Ongoing program