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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

A technology called blockchain was developed in 2008 and has found its biggest interest in the financial industry. The use of blockchain in healthcare has been discussed for a number of years. This has been demonstrated with cardiac implantable electronic devices and recent global IT hacking which involved hospital systems.