Program description highlighting how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is helping Veterans access care through their Video Connect app and piloting a project to implement an assessment tool that assesses technology’s suitability for patients’ needs, readiness for telehealth visits, and support for improving healthcare delivery for older adults.
Doctoring from home: Physicians’ perspectives on the advantages of remote care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic
A qualitative study aimed to explore the benefits of telehealth for primary care physicians and their patients through semi-structured interviews.
Enhancing Telehealth Competency: Development and evaluation of education models for older adults
The study aimed to improve telehealth accessibility for older adults by developing and evaluating telehealth education modules.
Targeted Telehealth Education Increases Interest in Using Telehealth Among a Diverse Group of Low-Income Adults
This study aimed to increase telehealth usage among vulnerable, low-income, minority older adults by providing education on telehealth and addressing its barriers.
National Expansion of Sleep Telemedicine for Veterans: The TeleSleep Program
This study aims to investigate the prevalence and comorbidity of sleep disorders among United States military personnel and veterans, as well as the status of sleep care services at VHA facilities.
Telehealth Trials to Address Health Equity in Stroke Survivors
Research outlining possibilities for chronic care management of stroke survivors using telehealth, focusing on populations with adverse social determinants of health.
Teleheath Provider tool: Working with patients who are hearing and/ or vision impaired
Guidance of best practices to assist in hosting telemedicine visit for patients who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or DeadBlind.
Patient tool: amplification for telehealth, video conferencing phone calls
Fact sheet for hard of hearing patients to reference in order to know how to amplify the sound during a telehealth appointment.
Patient tool: Appointment Checklist for Hard of Hearing People Using Telehealth
Fact sheet for patients who are hard of hearing, this is an imperative checklist to ensure having a successful telehealth appointment
ActiveHip+: A feasible mHealth system for the recovery of older adults after hip surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A study testing the feasiility of ActiveHip+ mHealth tool to aid older afults post hip surgery.
The Digital Divide: Do Older Adults with Serious Illness Access Telemedicine?
Comparison of digital access between older adults with serious illness and a control group in a nationally representative cohort study.
A commentary focused on the lessons and perspectives learned during the Covid-19 pandemic regarding telehealth utilization in LTCF.