Healthcare IT News January 22, 2020
In 2019, it offered more than 2.6 million telehealth episodes of care to more than 900,000 veterans. At HIMSS20, a VA leader will show how this, plus innovations such as My HealtheVet and Blue Button, is boosting veterans’ patient experience.
The U.S. Department of veterans affairs has been making major investments in innovating its technology and infrastructure in recent years.
There’s the massive electronic health record modernization, of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth.
Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA. It’s already responsible for the biggest telemedicine infrastructure in the nation, and use of its telehealth services...