Healthcare-focused data analytics company Glassbeam has signed an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) program to enhance VA real-time data and predictive analytics capabilities.
HTM and Glassbeam engineers will work together utilizing Glassbeam's Service Analytics offering to connect systems, gather log data and create predictive signatures. ...
With 6,146 veterans taking their own life in 2020, suicide was the 13th leading cause of death among the population overall and the second leading cause of death among veterans under the age of 45, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 2022 Annual Report.
With its Mission Daybreak Grand Challenge that launched last year, the VA aims to encourage innovation to provide more mental...
Providing video-enabled tablets to rural veterans decreased emergency department visits and suicide behaviors, and increased both in-person and virtual mental health visits, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
"These findings suggest that video-enabled tablets may provide access to critical services for rural patients with mental health needs and reduce instances of suicide...
Ten months after announcing plans, and just shy of a year after those plans originally leaked, Apple and the Department of Veterans Affairs have completed the rollout of Apple Health Records to any iOS users among the more than 9 million veterans in the US and surrounding territories.
“We have delivered veterans an innovative new way to easily and securely access their health information,” VA...
Currently, more than 26 clinicians are using Streams at the Royal Free Hospital in London, allowing them to detect an average of 11 patients daily who are at risk of AKI, most in fewer than 15 minutes rather than the multiple hours the process usually requires.
Streams processes patient test results, rapidly prioritising the patients most at risk and allowing for more immediate treatment to be...
Thanks to a new partnership between Microsoft and the US Department of Veterans Affairs, military personnel with mobility and manual dexterity limitations will have a new way to participate in video game-based rehabilitation therapies.
According to a blog post published this morning, Microsoft will be donating its Xbox Adaptive Controller — a modular hub that connects third-party switches,...
Apple Health Records, a feature that lets users upload their health records from participating health systems onto their phone, is officially coming to US veterans courtesy of a Department of Veterans Affairs partnership announced by Apple this morning in a blog post.
Soon, veterans receiving their care through the government organization will have access to a portable aggregated record of their...
As part of a larger Department of Defense contract, wireless carrier T-Mobile will be providing 70,000 lines of wireless service to the Department of Veterans Affairs to increase the availability of telehealth services to veterans, the company announced today.
“Deploying this type of service across all of our locations not only connects VHA staff with the people and data they need, it makes them...
The Department of Veterans Affairs and IBM Watson Health have announced a one-year extension to an ongoing public-private partnership applying the AI company’s technology to genomic data for cancer therapy.
The precision oncology collaboration has so far assisted the treatment of more than 2,700 veterans, according to a statement, although the original agreement in 2016 had proposed the lofty...
Patients of doctors who participated in a Veteran Affairs-run telemedicine consultation program were 54 percent more likely to survive chronic liver disease than a matched cohort of patients of non-participating doctors, according to a new retrospective study from the University of Michigan.
“It seems that primary care providers who participated in [the program] were more likely to follow the...
