U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
HIMSS25
Dylan Tête, director of business development for Red Duke Strategies, discusses the company's successful pilot program, which mitigates clinical staffing shortages by enabling veterans' family members to become their paid caregivers.
The award will support veterans' access to the California-based virtual reality company's FDA-authorized at-home chronic low back pain offering, RelieVRx.
Policy changes and digital innovation are helping improve healthcare access for veterans and their families, according to Jim Gfrerer, former CIO at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, who also discusses the future of healthcare.
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Dr. Christina Armstrong, a clinical psychologist at the VA’s Office of Connected Care, shares how other health systems can prepare for future crises with virtual care.
The overall prevalence of diabetes among U.S. veterans was 20.5% between 2013 and 2014, and it affects nearly 25% of VA patients.
This week's top stories include the VA giving scheduling technology a test run, a requirement that nursing homes test their staffs for COVID-19 and Amwell getting a $100 million funding boost from Google Cloud.