mHealth Intelligence January 3, 2020
Located in Pittsburgh, the telehealth program has been delivering cancer care management and chemotherapy treatment for about a year to a clinic 100 miles away for veterans living in central Pennsylvania.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has made significant strides in telehealth and mHealth adoption over the past few years, in everything from mHealth apps to virtual visits and telehealth stations in remote and retail locations.
Now the VA is gaining praise for a new telehealth service: the country’s first remote chemotherapy clinic.
The program is based in Pennsylvania, and links the James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center in Altoona with the VA Pittsburgh Medical Center, some 100 miles away. Using telemedicine technology, oncologists at the Pittsburgh hospital have...