GovernmentCIO Media July 31, 2020
The Army has adopted the technology, especially in mental health care, as DHA has advanced telemedical capabilities
U.S. Army Medical Command has seen a 70 percent increase in virtual health amid COVID-19, especially in providing its beneficiaries greater access to mental health treatment, Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. R Scott Dingle said Wednesday.
“Virtual health, telemedicine has blown up as the restrictions of COVID hit our country … to ensure that we’re not exposing beneficiaries, patients, by coming into a facility or to a location” Dingle said in an Association of the U.S. Army webinar. “We have increased our virtual health 70 percent. It has been a phenomenal occurrence of increase in virtual health and the virtual machine platforms.”
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