Compared with patients not using virtual care, patients using telehealth for knee replacement rehabilitation recover faster, report significantly less pain, show greater improvements in range of motion – and incur $2,460 less in total care costs.
Pressed by lawmakers about changes underway at the agency, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins said the VA is addressing bureaucracy that has stymied the electronic health record modernization program.
The health system's cloud migration team took learnings from the effort and spun them out into OptaFi, which offers best practices and technical capabilities for moving Epic EHR workloads from on-premise to the cloud. Sentara's CTO gives an inside look.