“The VA is using its ongoing health care modernization to improve care during COVID-19 as well as set the stage for assisting vaccine availability that will help close the pandemic.”
“Speaking at NextGov’s Modern Heartbeat: Civilian and Military Health for the Present Day summit, Deputy Under Secretary for Health at the VA Office of Discovery, Education and Affiliate Networks (DEAN) Dr. Carolyn Clancy described how the agency has continued to modernize and expand access to care during the public health crisis…”
“Clancy emphasized the success in expanding telehealth and remote care infrastructure as a foundation for providing additional services outside of VA clinics themselves.”
“About a third of the people in our system live in rural areas,” she said. “Our first venture was Eureka, Montana. And it’s true Montana is a very big state — these veterans live two or three hours from the main medical center. And instead, they can go to a VFW Hall and have a private virtual appointment. So between that and mobile vans and all kinds of other partnering, I think that will be how we’re doing it.” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Preparing to Enable Access to COVID-19 Vaccine – By Adam Patterson, November 2, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
