Fed Health IT: Industry Joint Ventures Meet Mission Goals at VA

With the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) going through an innovation transformation and modernization effort, now is an ideal time for industry members to seek out partnerships and Joint Ventures (JV) that can help drive overall mission success for our nation’s Veterans, their families and caregivers, and survivors.

When industry players form JVs, the sum is often much greater than the overall parts – and it extends much further than helping each other to gain opportunity to compete for VA and other fed health IT contracts.

This was the key theme of a recent Fed Health IT guest article by Melinda Pitchford, Director of Business Development and Capture Management at DSS, Inc.; and Allison Hickey, CEO and President of All in Solutions, LLC.

The article points to the value that All In VETS, LLC, a recently formed JV between DSS, Inc., and All In Solutions, LLC, a CVE-certified, SDVOSB, Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), will provide in the federal health arena.

The two companies have more than twenty-five years of VA experience – including executives with VA leadership experience who understand and have lived first-hand the challenges of IT transformation and modernization across all benefit lines of service.

All In VETS strives to provide intimate knowledge of VA and the Veterans, their families, and Survivors they serve, with the extensive experience of serving this important community providing Information Technology (IT) solutions, managed service delivery (MSD), product and software development, and problem-exploration and solutioning. 

The core value of All In VETS is to place Veterans, their families, and Survivors at the center of everything.  The team will first explore, discover, and document the needs of the Veteran and end user to design, build, test, and deploy the right capability with the best outcome, and always with the “human” in the center of the approach.  Even the All In VETS logo depicts this approach with the “Veteran” at the center of the combined company shields. 

Innovation, creativity, and transformation are key focus areas of All In VETS with cutting-edge processes, systems and software that are designed to empower everyone across the broad spectrum of Veteran care and services. All In VETS can deliver in these areas by leveraging experience of being inside the organization and industry leaders for more than two decades.  

The article closes out with the age-old expression of how the “rising tide lifts all boats.”  This is  certainly appropriate when it comes to JVs. With this in mind, All In VETS will offer a clear vision for the future of Veteran care, and offer the path to achieve it.

To learn more about All in VETS, please click here.