Excessive-value digital well being care
VA is dedicated to making sure that Veteran sufferers are cared for even earlier than well being care wants emerge. We’re utilizing digital applied sciences to assist enhance Veteran well being and be certain that they’ve entry to the simplest care each time and wherever they want it. VA is:
- Offering sensible mats to stop diabetic limb loss;
- Helping visually-impaired Veterans reside extra impartial lives;
- Bringing care to Veterans after they want it (virtual cardiac rehabilitation);
- Addressing the wants of Veteran moms with TeleLactation services;
- Providing mobile mental health apps to enhance Veterans’ mental health.
Constructing know-how for you
On the identical time, we acknowledge that extra technology isn’t at all times one of the best ways ahead. As Ret. Airman Mike Borges says, “I had a flip cellphone till two years in the past. Most Vets have flip telephones. It’s routinely assumed everyone is aware of how you can use Zoom or connect with telehealth, and it’s simply not true.”
We perceive this and are dedicated to constructing know-how options for you, not simply throwing new know-how at you.
Moreover, we need to assist others. Combining expertise and experience from VHA Innovation Ecosystem (VHA IE) and Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), we launched The Playbook: Digital Healthcare Version.
This new public resource options methods VA makes use of to verify know-how reaches all Veterans. It ensures that we’re considerate and intentional about your private data and well being knowledge, and that we make completely sure the easiest remedy choices can be found to you.
Our hope in sharing this useful resource is that others can be taught from our accomplishments and produce profitable digital innovation to the door of each well being system throughout the U.S.
Get entangled
VA and Digital Drugs Society (DiMe) want to seize digital well being innovation being utilized in scientific follow. Share your story on the Case Examine Hub and inform us the way you’ve used these instruments, templates, or different assets.
Need to help VHA IE’s innovation revolution? Go to our website to study alternatives to turn out to be concerned in innovation at VA.
