Changing the location of care: Management of patients with chronic conditions in Veterans Health Administration using care coordination/home telehealth

Predictors and Outcomes of Early Adherence to the Use of a Home Telehealth Device by Older Veterans with Heart Failure

“…This disparity in program sizes was due to the fact that each HT program was initiated locally, and the enrolled patient number was dependent on starting date, effectiveness of recruitment activities, and type of patient targeted. 28 This retrospective cohort study used secondary data from two VA databases. After Institutional Review Board approvals were obtained, subjects were identified through the VA Austin Information Technology Center.…”

Promoting Access Through Complementary eHealth Technologies: Recommendations for VA’s Home Telehealth and Personal Health Record Programs

“…We concur with this vision; however, we also advocate for a more process-oriented perspective on access to care and disease management, focusing on potential ways that these programs could be integrated in a complementary manner. Table 3 presents a series of healthcare elements-resources, processes, and activities that are an inherent part of managing health-and the various functionalities of the CCHT and MHV programs that map to each element 27,34,35,43 . Although there is some overlap, we suggest how the respective functions provided by the two programs might be drawn upon in combination to enhance different healthcare elements, including access to care.…”

Families of patients with polytrauma: Understanding the evidence and charting a new research agenda

“…Technological innovations such as teleconferencing and Internet messaging are better studied in other areas, such as chronic-disease monitoring [73][74]. They provide a promising approach, however, for long-term care and support for families by bridging barriers due to geography, lack of specialty care, or lack of supportive social networks among families in similar situations [75][76].…”