{"id":195301,"date":"2026-03-12T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/charles-worthington-top-va-tech-and-ai-official-departs-agency\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:25:13","slug":"charles-worthington-top-va-tech-and-ai-official-departs-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/charles-worthington-top-va-tech-and-ai-official-departs-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Worthington, top VA tech and AI official, departs agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/charles-worthington-leaves-veterans-affairs\/\">Charles Worthington, top VA tech and AI official, departs agency<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/charles-worthington-leaves-veterans-affairs\/\">https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/charles-worthington-leaves-veterans-affairs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-12 17:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"fedscoop.com\">fedscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Worthington, the VA\u2019s Chief AI Officer and CTO, is stepping down after nearly nine years, citing it as the right time for a change.<\/li>\n<li>Worthington established the Office of the CTO and the VA Digital Service team from scratch, leading to a current staff of over 100 professionals.<\/li>\n<li>Before joining VA, Worthington served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow and co-created the U.S. Digital Service post-HealthCare.gov rollout.<\/li>\n<li>He brought significant advancements to VA, enhancing digital services and adopting commercial cloud infrastructure. The VA&#8217;s website was rebuilt, and services like VA Notify were introduced.<\/li>\n<li>Worthington championed AI adoption, transforming the VA into one of the top AI users in the federal government, with 367 identified use cases including a generative AI tool and AI scribes for clinicians.<\/li>\n<li>He is credited with reducing clinician burnout by applying AI tools for note-taking and medical record management.<\/li>\n<li>Worthington did not disclose his next destination but expressed enthusiasm for contributing to AI\u2019s technology frontier going forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Worthington, top VA tech and AI official, departs agency https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/charles-worthington-leaves-veterans-affairs\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-12 17:13:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2005497554.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-195301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195303,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195301\/revisions\/195303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}