The Obama administration plans to modernize the Veterans Administration (VA) and make it into a "21st century organization". Proposed reforms include:

• Develop a seamless electronic health record for active-duty personnel and veterans.
• Reduce processing times for medical claims.
• Automate and streamline business processes including checks to veterans under veteran entitlement programs.

GSA schedules are ideal mechanisms for Obama initiative implementation because they are in place contracts with pre-negotiated prices and procurements can be made in a matter of weeks. Information technology companies holding an IT-70 GSA Schedule will be in an ideal position to assist the VA in the transformation process. The information technology schedule can be used by state and local agencies with health claims processing and health record responsibilities.