Telehealth and Medicine Today July 30, 2021
Catherine Buck, Rita Kobb, Ron Sandreth, Lisa Alexander, Sherron Olliff, Carla Anderson, Carol Westfall, Laurie Graaff, Joseph Giovannucci, Aszur Rollins

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Objective: The Veterans Health Administration has one of the largest remote patient monitoring programs in the United States and is supported by an enterprise-wide infrastructure for providers, clinicians, staff, Veterans, and caregivers. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, presented new challenges: a sudden need to provide large-scale remote monitoring for a new disease that did not yet have a disease management protocol. VHA needed to be ready within weeks to provide this daily monitoring for hundreds — even thousands — of Veterans.

Methods: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Connected Care already had a comprehensive infrastructure in place for its Remote Patient Monitoring – Home Telehealth (RPM – HT) program. Connected Care activated and built on...

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Topics: Digital Health, Health IT, Healthcare System, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology, Telehealth, VA / DoD
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