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Daily Dashboard | OIG Report Critical of VA Research Data Exchanges Related reading: US NTIA releases AI Accountability Policy Report

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The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has said the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is not exercising adequate precautions in protecting sensitive health information that is shared with researchers, GovInfoSecurity reports. In the 57-page report, the OIG writes, “the VA could not readily account for the various systems linkages and sharing arrangements with researcher partners” and could not provide an accurate research data exchange inventory, where information was hosted or data sensitivity levels. The OIG recommends the VA create and institute a centralized data governance and storage model. The VA said that plan “would take considerable human and monetary resources,” the report states. Another recent OIG report found veterans’ data was “at risk due to unencrypted computers.”
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