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Homelessness: Actions to Help Better Address Older Adults' Housing and Health Needs
GAO-24-106300
Oct 09, 2024
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should ensure that the ACL Administrator, as the lead agency for the Housing and Services Resource Center, works with partner agencies to clearly define short- and long-term outcomes for the center, consistent with leading collaboration practices. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should ensure that the ACL Administrator, as the lead agency for the Housing and Services Resource Center, works with partner agencies to collect and use performance information and other relevant evidence to assess progress toward the center's desired outcomes, consistent with leading collaboration practices. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Health Care Transparency: CMS Needs More Information on Hospital Pricing Data Completeness and Accuracy
GAO-25-106995
Oct 02, 2024
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services The Administrator of CMS should assess whether hospital price transparency machine-readable files are sufficiently complete and accurate to be usable for supporting CMS's program goal and implement any additional cost-effective enforcement activities as needed. Such an assessment could include soliciting stakeholder feedback or conducting a study of hospital file completeness and accuracy. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

VA Acquisition Management: Additional Actions Needed in Serving Veterans with Sleep Apnea
GAO-24-107010
Sep 26, 2024
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure that the Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service, in coordination with the National Acquisition Center and the National Sleep Medicine Office, develops a set of metrics and corresponding objectives to track initiative performance with appropriate, reliable data sources, and routinely shares this information with other relevant stakeholders. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Biomedical Research: Improvements Needed to the Quality of Information About DOD and VA Contributions to Drug Development
GAO-24-107061
Sep 26, 2024
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Department of Defense The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, in collaboration with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, should enhance department-wide training for the DOD personnel who review information submitted by awardees to ensure that awardees disclose DOD support correctly in patents arising from DOD-funded research. (Recommendation 1)
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DOD concurred with the recommendation in its comments included in the report. When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Defense The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs should develop clear guidance requiring responsible parties of all trials funded by the Defense Health Program to report DOD as a funder when registering a trial on ClinicalTrials.gov, register the trial within 21 days of enrolling the first patient, and submit trial results within 1 year of the primary completion date to improve the quality and completeness of public information about DOD-funded clinical trials. (Recommendation 2)
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DOD concurred with the recommendation in its comments included in the report. When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Veterans Affairs The Under Secretary of Health at VA should direct ORD to take steps to better ensure that VA investigators conducting ORD-funded clinical trials submit results to ClinicalTrials.gov within 1 year of the primary completion date. Such steps could include improving procedures for notifying VA investigators of the trial result submission deadlines and collecting and analyzing data to determine how to address factors causing delays. (Recommendation 3)
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VA concurred with the recommendation. In its written comments included in the report, VA stated ORD will focus on the subset of clinical trials that are not subject to legal result reporting requirements but are expected to adhere to VA's ethically based reporting requirements; will expend additional additional resources to collect and analyze data to determine what factors are contributing to delays in result reporting for these trials; and will develop and implement strategies to better ensure timely results reporting to ClinicalTrials.gov specifically for these trials. When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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