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Is it time for the VA to embrace virtual care?
Is it time for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to fully embrace virtual care? The VA has long been one of America’s great health care innovators. From pioneering electronic health records to building one of the first truly integrated care systems, the VA has often been decades ahead of the private sector. But today, the system is straining. Nearly , and 79 percent lack enough nursing staff.
Shifting Toward Signal-Based Care
Kent E. Dicks, CEO of , is a digital health innovator transforming care with scalable RPM and AI-powered analytics. For generations, the healthcare system has been defined by its reactivity. Care is delivered when symptoms surface, when patients seek care or when conditions escalate to a point of urgency. However, this reactive model is increasingly misaligned with what modern tools and technologies make possible.
Invisible Technology and AI: The Future of Scaling Virtual Care
Kent Dicks: My name is Kent Dicks, and I'm CEO of Life365. This is my third company, and the second in digital health. I've worked in digital health for about 20 years. I am a major patent holder for this company and my previous company on wearable technology and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, and I was a graduate of Arizona State University in computer science.
Home Sweet Healthcare: Why the Best Care Setting Is Outside the Clinic
For decades, healthcare centered on physical locations – clinics, hospitals, examination rooms, and the like. If you needed treatment, you went to the care. Patients endured long waiting lines, lingered in lobbies, and hoped their providers could address their issues within the allotted time of an in-office visit. Today, however, healthcare’s focal point is shifting. For the modern patient, the most meaningful venue for healthcare isn’t the hospital; it’s the home.
How To Evolve AI Into An ‘Intelligent Layer’ That Transforms Preventive Care
During some health journeys, a critical physiological change may go unnoticed. At that stage, neither the patient nor the provider senses a symptom or concern. Traditional care models await complaints or visible decline before intervening. By then, the opportunity for low-cost prevention may already be lost. AI solutions are emerging to help identify those changes that may be imperceptible to humans.
'Invisible' Technology As A Key In Virtual Care Adoption
Kent Dicks, Founder and CEO of Life365. Healthcare technology has made significant advances in recent decades, including with innovations such as electronic health records (EHRs), wearable sensors, genetic testing and virtual care/remote patient monitoring. While groundbreaking, this technology could also be contributing to clinician burnout.
How Technology Expands Care Access and Improves the Health of Our Veterans – RamaOnHealthcare
HealthIT Answers By Kent Dicks, CEO and Founder, Life365 Decade after decade, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has sought innovative ways to expand access to care for veterans. These efforts, unfortunately, often have gone unreported in the media. As far back as 2003, for example, the VA began offering virtual care and remote health monitoring to an estimated in their homes and other locations.
How Tech Is Expanding Care Access And Improving The Health Of Military Veterans
Although it doesn’t receive the press coverage it deserves, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Health Administration has been a bold innovator in expanding access to care for decades. For example, the VA has offered virtual care and remote health monitoring to an estimated in their homes and other locations since 2003.
How The VA is Transforming Healthcare Access for Veterans Through Remote Care and Technology
This insightful piece, originally published on Government Technology Insider, highlights the Veterans Health Administration’s approach to improving healthcare access for veterans. The VA is tackling important issues in healthcare delivery for the aging and rural veteran population through the Veterans Community Care Program and the expansion of remote patient management technologies.
The Future is Now: How the VA is Leading a Revolution in Virtual Care and Remote Patient Monitoring - Government Technology Insider
In a bid to increase access to healthcare for veterans, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) – the country’s largest integrated healthcare provider – in 2019 launched the Veterans Community Care Program (VCCP), which enables veterans to obtain care from non-VA healthcare facilities when wait times exceed designated limits. The program’s success, however, has created a challenge: In just five years, VCCP has grown to comprise nearly 40percent of the VA’s contractual expenses.
Enabling Remote Analytic System Integration
When looking for silver linings in the cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are the positive gains made in the use of telehealth, to minimize the risk of exposure to frontline care workers and patients alike. In this realm, Life365 is continually adding new solutions to help solidify the embrace of virtual care and make the concept of Hospital@Home a reality.
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