{"id":377,"date":"2026-06-09T19:59:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:59:35","slug":"in-2016-two-va-employees-nearly-handed-the-complete-health-records-of-every-veteran-who-had-ever-used-va-healthcare-including-dna-from-the-million-veteran-program-to-a-private-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/in-2016-two-va-employees-nearly-handed-the-complete-health-records-of-every-veteran-who-had-ever-used-va-healthcare-including-dna-from-the-million-veteran-program-to-a-private-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2016, two VA employees nearly handed the complete health records of every veteran who had ever used VA healthcare \u2014 including DNA from the Million Veteran Program \u2014 to a private AI startup called Flow Health."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">In 2016, two VA employees nearly handed the complete health records of every veteran who had ever used VA healthcare \u2014 including DNA from the Million Veteran Program \u2014 to a private AI startup called Flow Health. VA leadership found out when the company issued a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">The VA Inspector General spent four years investigating. They documented at least five specific false statements made to the approving official. DOJ declined to prosecute. Both employees were still at VA when the report was published in January 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">This is Part 2 of our three-part investigation into a decade of VA data security failures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/va_flowhealth_crada.php\">https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/va_flowhealth_crada.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, two VA employees nearly handed the complete health records of every veteran who had ever used VA healthcare \u2014 including DNA from the Million Veteran Program \u2014 to a private AI startup called Flow Health. VA leadership found out when the company issued a press release. The VA Inspector General spent four years &#8230; <a title=\"In 2016, two VA employees nearly handed the complete health records of every veteran who had ever used VA healthcare \u2014 including DNA from the Million Veteran Program \u2014 to a private AI startup called Flow Health.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/in-2016-two-va-employees-nearly-handed-the-complete-health-records-of-every-veteran-who-had-ever-used-va-healthcare-including-dna-from-the-million-veteran-program-to-a-private-ai\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about In 2016, two VA employees nearly handed the complete health records of every veteran who had ever used VA healthcare \u2014 including DNA from the Million Veteran Program \u2014 to a private AI startup called Flow Health.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}