Change Request: Appointments Endpoint will Include Community Care Appointment from Wellhive/EPS

[loripusey]

1.) Requestor's Name

Lori Pusey

2.) Requestor's Email

lori.pusey@va.gov

3.) VA Team

Health Products

4.) What is the name of the project or change?

Appointments Endpoint will Include Community Care Appointment from Wellhive/EPS

5.) Please explain what problem you are trying to solve.

As part of the Veteran Direct Self Scheduling for Community Care Appointments initiative, the VAOS backend endpoint that is used by both the Appointments on VA.gov application and VAHB is going to be modified to allow Veterans to self-schedule community care appointments. The appointment list on VA.gov and VAHB already display community care appointments and we don't think they will be impacted with these modifications.

While there appears to be no work necessary on the VAHB side, we are requesting that, after this change is made, the VAHB team QA the display of appointments to ensure there are no side effects or additional work needed to account for the addition of these appointments.

6.) Please explain how this change would work.

We would need the VAHB team to QA the application to ensure there are no side effects or additional work needed to community care appointments.

7.) Features Impacted

Appointments

8.) Please include all relevant documentation links for this change request.

Initiative Brief

9.) Does your team have all the necessary materials (documents, designs, processes, analytics, APIs, etc) in place for Mobile to make these changes right now?

Yes

10.) Has this change been discussed with VAHB POs (Ryan or Don)?

Kristen McConnell is planning to discuss with Ryan

11.) Has this change been agreed upon by all impacted VA Stakeholders?

Yes

12.) What is your ideal due date for this change request?

Q2 2025

[loripusey]

@kristenmcconnell tagging you

[kristenmcconnell]

@rtwell and @DonMcCaugheyUSDS I just sent you a DM about this as well. Let me know what questions you have.