# U\.S\. Medicine: The Voice of Federal Medicine

> U\.S\. Medicine is a monthly publication that serves healthcare professionals working in the Department of Veterans Affairs, Military Health System and the Indian Health Service\.

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- [VA Survey Finds Primary Care Nurses Might Not Be Working to Full Scope of Practice](https://www.usmedicine.com/nursing/va-survey-finds-primary-care-nurses-might-not-be-working-to-full-scope-of-practice/): In the VHA’s Patient Aligned Care Teams \(PACTS\) system to provide optimal primary care \(PC\) for veterans, all members of the PACT are expected to function at the top of their training and scope\. That is not the case, however, with nurses, according to a recent survey and analysis\.
- [Larger Health Information Exchange Volume Improves Select Patient Outcomes](https://www.usmedicine.com/non-clinical-topics/electronic-health-records/larger-health-information-exchange-volume-improves-select-patient-outcomes/): A greater volume of health information exchange, the electronic sharing of patient medical information among healthcare organizations, appears to affect patient outcomes for community care and VHA direct care settings differently\. In one setting, it improves patient outcomes, but, in the other, the effects are neutral or adverse, a recent study suggested\.
- [Very Low Percentages of Veterans Have Received Contraception Information from Providers](https://www.usmedicine.com/clinical-topics/womens-health/very-low-percentages-of-veterans-have-received-contraception-information-from-providers-2/): In U\.S\. veterans of reproductive age, having greater healthcare engagement and more reliance on providers as trusted sources of contraceptive information could improve their knowledge, according to a recent study\.
- [Cured, Prevented and Invented: The Military's Long Reckoning with Viral Hepatitis](https://www.usmedicine.com/supplement/vaccine-supplement/cured-prevented-and-invented-the-militarys-long-reckoning-with-viral-hepatitis/): Hepatitis A, B, C and D sit at different points along the vaccine story this series has traced since 1777\. One has a vaccine the Army itself invented\.
- [The Geography of Disease and the Need for a Growing Vaccine Arsenal](https://www.usmedicine.com/supplement/vaccine-supplement/the-geography-of-disease-and-the-need-for-a-growing-vaccine-arsenal/): A military confined to one continent faces one disease environment\. A force that deploys anywhere on short notice faces all of them at once\.

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