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A Veteran’s health record shouldn’t stop at the edge of one health system. When records move cleanly between VA, the Department of Defense and community providers, clinicians spend less time searching and more time treating.

Aptive is proud to announce a new five-year contract with the VA Office of Clinical Informatics. Our team will lead interoperability work across health information exchange, the Joint Longitudinal Viewer, clinical terminology and standards, helping a Veteran’s full record reach the right clinician at the right time.

Read more: https://t.co/ClgLoJJimQ

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New research from Dr. Lynda Hoeksema is now published in Frontiers in Digital Health.

Her work looks at a new way to detect adverse events across large populations after a triggering event such as medication use or vaccines, using electronic health record data. Working with the FDA in a feasibility study, she helped test methods to use AI tools to scan through volumes of records and thousands of pages of clinical notes using precise computable criteria to reliably flag notable cases to bring to the attention of expert doctors. This can enhance the clinical review process to detect adverse events and provides additional support to the physicians reviewing potential cases. In this study, that meant looking at mRNA vaccines and a rare heart condition called myocarditis.

The good news: the approach works. The AI methodology the team designed consistently identified relevant medical information and potential adverse event cases for safety reviewers to focus on for additional in-depth human review. This could take a big load off the clinicians who would otherwise have to sift through mountains of records by hand.

We're proud to have her expertise on the Aptive team and excited to see this work in print. Congratulations, Dr. Hoeksema!

Read the study: https://t.co/zHxkbyOMBH

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Think of Model Context Protocol, or MCP, as the USB-C port for AI: one standard way for an AI tool to plug into the systems around it instead of a custom connection for every single one. The last article in our Agentic AI Governance Series takes on MCP servers and the blanket advice to avoid them.

The security warnings are real, but they describe MCP servers pulled from public catalogs, not the kind your own team builds and runs. Author Ian Meinert breaks down which risks disappear when you build your own, which ones stick around no matter what and what paperwork federal contractors and what federal contractors still must show their agency to prove they got it right.

Read more here: https://t.co/AVWPBH7qwC
Catch up on the full series: https://t.co/ZlvWOgc9xJ

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AI systems built from multiple AI “agents” working together are becoming the norm, in business and government alike. They’re powerful, and they’re also risky if you don’t build them carefully.

In Article 6 of our Agentic AI Governance Series, Ian Meinert breaks down what can actually go wrong with these systems and the safeguards that keep them safe, reliable and audit ready, even in regulated environments. https://t.co/AJfZzNXJdl

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AI systems built from multiple AI “agents” working together are becoming the norm, in business and government alike. They’re powerful, and they’re also risky if you don’t build them carefully.

In Article 6 of our Agentic AI Governance Series, Ian Meinert breaks down what can actually go wrong with these systems and the safeguards that keep them safe, reliable and audit ready, even in regulated environments. https://t.co/AJfZzNXJdl

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Aptive just won a new contract with the Veterans Health Administration. We'll be helping modernize how Veteran and Family Member Programs handles claims, eligibility and appeals for a program that covers more than one million family members and six million Veterans. Read more: https://t.co/ZJCmYa0Pas

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Aptive is bringing nearly two decades of federal health experience to a new $2.3 million VA task order, supporting the Office of Suicide Prevention. Four sprints, one mission: reach Veterans before a crisis happens. Increasing Connections. Chronic Pain Management Support. Faith-Based Collaborations. Care Coordination. Read more: https://t.co/SsSgLKIONM

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Over 4,000 miles and one shared mission. Fitness Frenzy 2026 is our team's annual summer tradition of rallying around a cause while focusing on our own health and wellbeing. We spent six weeks in friendly competition trying to chase down Zak Khaliqi, who came out on top of the distance leaderboard. Through Aptive Cares, we made a donation to the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic, which brings adaptive sports to hundreds of Veterans every year. Read the recap: https://t.co/e3XS6oRsOd

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Employee Spotlight: Corey Smith, Project Manager

Corey spends his days supporting leaders with VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization program, coordinating executive engagements, tracking go-live readiness and turning complex work into insights leaders can act on. Outside the briefings, he's just as likely to be singing, a skill his grandmother taught him and one he still puts to use writing his own music.

Based in Maryland, Corey is an extrovert who says he's never met a story he didn't want to hear. That curiosity about people shows up in how he builds relationships across every team he touches, and it's a big part of why he's so good at his job.

His advice for getting ahead: stay open and keep learning. Ours: keep an eye on this guy.

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Anyone can write rules for AI to follow. Getting it to actually follow them is the hard part.

In article four of Aptive's agentic AI series for federal programs building multi-agent AI systems, we move from architecture to infrastructure: the containers, sandboxes, network zones and pre-launch checks that turn governance decisions into a system that holds up under load, and under attack.

Inside, Ian Meinert takes us through: kernel-level isolation for LLM-generated code, a network architecture mapped to CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model, SBOM and KEV scanning built into the build pipeline, and an AI Incident Response Plan built around the 72-hour CISA reporting clock.

Translation for those of us who don't speak fluent DevSecOps: the AI stays in its lane, can't wander off with your data and won't fail without someone noticing.

Read Article 4: https://t.co/Cfcv06PZfB
Catch up on the whole series: https://t.co/bIHlDNuIwz

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Tammy Czarnecki has been named an Impact award winner by FORUM.
The award is part of this year's IMPACT 150, honoring women whose peers nominated them for the mark they have made across the govcon industry. Tammy's inclusion reflects a career built on decades as a nurse and executive leader in the federal health sector, centered on improving health and care for Veterans.
She will be honored at the IMPACT 100 Women in Leadership Gala on Oct. 8 at MGM National Harbor.
Congratulations, Tammy!

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Eight of the nine material governance gaps in enterprise AI programs aren't technical, they're organizational.
In Article 3 of our Agentic AI Governance series, Ian Meinert maps the leadership commitments, policy artifacts, accountability structures and training programs required to close the gaps that NIST AI RMF 1.0 identifies, the ones that better code can't fix on its own.
An AI system can have every technical control implemented correctly and still fail a governance review if leadership hasn't decided what risk it will accept and who is accountable when something goes wrong.
Read Article 3 of 7: https://t.co/vQhlBawpME
Catch up on the full series: https://t.co/vGj7h2jIGA
#AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #NISTAIRMF #GovTech #RiskManagement

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Aptive is in New Orleans this week, and we're pumped to be at the Defense Health Information Technology Symposium (DHITS)!

On the ground: Jenny Holt and Laura Cord, ready to talk all things health IT.

If you're at DHITS, track us down, wave us over, come say hi, whatever works! We want to meet you, hear what you're working on and swap ideas. Let's make this a great week in New Orleans 🎉

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What does it take to build technology and services that actually hold up in federal health, not just in a demo?

Aptive's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Adi Gundlapalli has a clear answer: start with the person at the end of the work. The Veteran in the clinic. The provider with too many tabs open on their electronic health record screen. The public health worker building a complex data pipeline.

Dr. Gundlapalli brings more than two decades of experience inside VA and CDC to that answer, including leading data and analytics for national emergency responses to COVID-19, Mpox and Marburg. In his latest piece, he talks about decision-making under uncertainty, the real limits of AI in healthcare and why data travels at the speed of trust: https://t.co/d9DTQUvXgD

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Congratulations to Emily Howell, Aptive's Vice President of Growth, on officially receiving her 40 Under 40 honor from the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce! Last night's celebration was a great reminder of the impact she's made, and we were glad to be there cheering her on. Well earned, Emily!

#40Under40 #AlexandriaChamber #ALX #govcon #aptive

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A Veteran who lost a hand can feel pressure in his fingers again, enough to hold his grandkids without worrying about his grip. That type of research and development is happening across VA, and Aptive is part of what makes it possible.

Nearly two dozen Aptive health research specialists are embedded at VA medical centers nationwide, running the data analytics, biostatistics and research administration behind studies like this one.

Kristi Steinhauer, Aptive project manager, put it simply: "Every person on this project is doing work that directly enables VA researchers to focus on what they do best."

Read the full story: https://t.co/JkGqyFZtax

#VeteranCare #FederalHealthcare #VAResearch

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Problems get solved fastest at the source, not when they have to route through multiple layers. Aptive helped architect VA's EHR Issue Management Process, a local-first framework now supporting more than 1,380 sites of care on the path to a single standard of care for #Veterans.

Hear from Aptive's Spencer Esty and Artemis ARC's Jillian Gates about how this process works and what's coming next: https://t.co/SP7OgpRCyn

#FederalEHR #HealthIT

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Here's to 250. Happy 4th from our team to yours!