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Keeping IT Brief
Keeping IT Brief is FORUM’s fast, focused podcast delivering essential insights on government technology, federal modernization, and the evolving GovCon landscape. Each short episode features conversations with industry leaders, government executives, and innovators who are driving mission success through new strategies, emerging technologies, and forward-thinking approaches to public sector IT.
Designed for busy federal and industry professionals, Keeping IT Brief gets straight to what matters—key trends, practical takeaways, and expert perspectives on cybersecurity, digital transformation, AI adoption, cloud advancements, and the policies shaping federal technology priorities. Instead of long discussions, the podcast provides concise, high-value briefings that help listeners stay informed and ready for what’s next.
Whether you support federal programs, lead technology initiatives, work in business development, or simply want to keep pace with the rapid changes across government IT, Keeping IT Brief delivers the insights you need in a format that fits your schedule. Guests include senior government officials, CIOs, CTOs, acquisition experts, solution architects, and strategic voices from across the public and private sectors.
About the Host:
Mary Ann Brown hosts Keeping IT Brief and brings extensive experience in connecting government and industry across technology, policy, and mission-driven initiatives. As Senior Director of Operations at FORUM, she supports collaboration through strategic events, leadership programs, and platforms that elevate critical conversations in the federal space.
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Keeping IT Brief
One-on-One With the Founder of the Veterans Administration’s Solor Project
Dr. Keith Campbell discusses enabling semantic interoperability and High-Reliability Organization (HRO) principles through the Solor Project. The Solor Project is a VA-sponsored initiative that seeks to improve patient safety through the improvement of data quality and harmonization of terminology standards.
Dr. Keith Campbell, Director for Informatics Architecture at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA):
Dr. Keith Campbell, an accomplished physician, informaticist, and computer scientist, is the founder of the Solor project, a US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-initiated effort to tackle issues of healthcare data interoperability on a national level. Dr. Campbell developed the Solor project to address patient safety risk through its interoperability framework and help connect different health care terminology data in one integrated platform. His thought-leadership has led to dedicated triumphs in reducing errors through standardization of data, enhancing collaboration via an open-source ecosystem, improving safety by reducing reliance on costly and inefficient manual data and integration practices, and enabling seamless care for our veterans and beyond.
The Veterans Health Administration
The Veterans Health Administration is America’s largest integrated health care system, providing care at 1,255 health care facilities, including 170 medical centers and 1,074 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics), serving 9 million enrolled Veterans each year.
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Keeping IT Brief with Mary Ann Brown features quick, insightful conversations with government and industry leaders on federal IT, cybersecurity, AI, and emerging technologies shaping the future of government operations.
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