NEJM July 1, 2020
Leonie Heyworth, MD, MPH, Susan Kirsh, MD, MPH, Donna Zulman, MD, MS, Jacqueline M. Ferguson, PhD & Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH

The Veterans Health Administration offers a blueprint for rapid expansion of telehealth services during the Covid-19 pandemic that can be used to maintain those advances after the pandemic subsides.

Summary

The Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System has faced unique challenges responding to the Covid-19 pandemic because of its large size and widely diverse operating environments, the high disease burden of its patient population, and its role as a back-up system to the private sector in times of national emergency. Three priorities have driven its initial response: (1) how to continue providing access to medical and mental health care to millions of patients who have multiple co-morbidities...

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Topics: Digital Health, Health IT, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology, Telehealth, VA / DoD
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