Secretary or the Under Secretary for Health before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this section. (8) To conduct coordination and open communication with the Inspector General of the Department, the Special Counsel, and the Comptroller General and to ensure those entities have the information required to perform their independent oversight functions. (d) Capabilities and internal controls The Under Secretary and the Medical Inspector shall ensure that the Office has the following capabilities and internal controls to achieve effective operations of the Office: (1) A modern electronic information technology database, system, or systems with a minimum of the following functions or capabilities: (A) To perform modern case management activities, including tracking open cases, closed cases, trends, time to process, open recommendations, to whom a recommendation is directed (such as a facility or individual), and other similar activities of the Office. (B) To track referrals of issues the Office declines to review but refers to other entities to review. (C) To review all report recommendations of the Office for trends and issues throughout the Veterans Health Administration and alert leadership of the Veterans Health Administration for corrective and preventative action. (D) Such other functions or capabilities as determined by the Under Secretary and the Medical Inspector. (2) Consistent guidelines for how long facilities that have an open recommendation from the Office have to close such recommendation. (3) Best practice guidelines on what set of management officials and processes are to be used to approve the closure of recommendations from the Office consistent with internal controls best practices of the Government Accountability Office. (4) A staffing model and budget for the Office that is consistent with those of a health care system with a patient workload the size of that served by the Department. (5) An organizational performance plan. (e) Information on Senior Executive Service applicants (1) In