What You Should Know:
- Data analytics and digital health company MDClone
announced a partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) VHA
Innovation Ecosystem to democratize data and provide better, smarter, faster
healthcare to U.S Veterans.
- By leveraging MDClone’s data platform, the VHA is able to tackle this massive problem by securely accessing, organizing, and analyzing the critical health data of Veterans with the use of synthetic data – a breakthrough method pioneered
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Department of Veteran Affairs
VA Taps Appriss for Drug Monitoring to Curb Substance Abuse
What You Should Know:
- The Department of Veteran Affairs is working with
Appriss Health to tackle the veteran opioid epidemic via drug monitoring.
- The tool will give VHA prescribers more complete clinical information, including controlled substance prescription histories, for patients, helping clinicians identify and prevent prescription drug misuse, resulting in better-informed care decision-making and improving patient safety.
Appriss
Health, a provider delivering
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VA Announces First Cerner EHR Go-Live at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center
What You Should Know:
- Cerner today announced the historic and successful
first deployment of a modern EHR at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in
Spokane, WA.
- The go-live marks the first time in history three federal departments (VA, DOD, and USCG) are using the same EHR.
Cerner Corporation today
announced the historic and successful first deployment of a modern electronic health record
(EHR) at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical
Center in Spokane, WA. The go-live marks the first
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6 Benefits of Telemedicine in Managing the Diabetes Epidemic
The American Diabetes Association reveals that 9.4% of the American population has diabetes, and with numbers that high nearly all Americans have a friend or family member with the disease. However, many Americans are not aware that telehealth can enable diabetic patients to manage their condition—treatment that would have otherwise been difficult to come by for rural patients with limited access to care.
With such a high prevalence among the population, providing care regardless of proximity
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Q&A: How the VHA’s Innovator’s Network Is Transforming Veteran Care
Dr. Ryan Vega explains how the VHA’s Innovator’s Network (iNET) is transforming how the VA identifies, incubates, and deliver healthcare innovation to improve healthcare for veterans.
Innovation is the bud from which all things radical seem to bloom. It’s also the critical element at the center of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) objectives to improve the quality and reach of healthcare for its veterans. Changes spurred by the Mission Act—which hopes to create greater access through
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Verizon to Offers Veterans Unlimited Access to the VA’s Telehealth App Free of Charge
Verizon announced plans to offer its customers who are Veterans unlimited access to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) VA Video Connect telehealth app. Starting now, veterans will be able to access the application anywhere across Verizon’s nationwide 4G LTE network, without charge.
VA Video Connect Overview
VA Video Connect uses smartphone or tablet cameras to let Veterans talk and interact with their VA care team over a live, encrypted video stream. Accessing VA Video Connect
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CirrusMD Lands $15M to Fuel Adoption of Chat-First Virtual Care Solution
CirrusMD, a Denver, CO-based chat-first virtual care solution, today announced that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by Drive Capital, Colorado Impact Fund and other prior investors, bringing total funding to-date to $26 million. The company also announced a new contract with Iron Bow as a subcontractor to the United States Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) for improved care access and delivery for the veteran community.
Care Without Barriers
Founded in 2012 by Blake
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VA Tops 1 Million Video Telehealth Visits in FY2018
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it has reached a telehealth milestone, achieving more than 1 million video telehealth visits in one fiscal year (FY18), a 19 percent increase in video telehealth visits over the prior year. From October 2017 through September 2018, Veterans received VA quality care during approximately 2.3 million episodes of telehealth care.- About half (1,074,400) were video telehealth encounters, which allows real-time interaction between VA care
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Veterans Affairs Taps T-Mobile to Expand Veterans’ Access to Telehealth Services
T-Mobile is providing 70,000 lines of wireless service to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help make telehealth services more accessible to veterans.The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has tapped T-Mobile to provide 70,000 lines of wireless service to the health care providers and support staff across all VA hospitals, clinics and outpatient facilities around the nation, making T-Mobile the primary wireless provider for the agency. T-Mobile’s agreement with VA is part of the
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1Vision and AMC Health Lands VA Contract to Provide Telehealth Solutions to Veterans
1Vision LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of HMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC., and AMC Health, the leading provider of proven real-time virtual care solutions, have been awarded the Authority to Operate (ATO) and provide telehealth solutions to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).As part of the agreement, 1Vision’s and AMC Health’s telehealth solutions will be made available to enrolled Veterans and their family members. Earlier this year, 1Vision and AMC Health announced their participation in an
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