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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Evans recently answered some questions from Healthcare IT News about how technology is helping VA make big improvements in patient access, engagement and experience. Since its inception in June of 2008, more than 86 million VA Secure Messages have been initiated by VA patients or their care teams. In FY19, there were more than 20.6

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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

Predictive analytics and other AI may however be relevant to patient safety by gathering data from the patient’s EHR (and heaven help us one day from data sets of other systems) to predict both minor and major preventable adverse events. Improving the electronic medical record (EHR).