There’s No Place Like Home: Coordinating Care for Veterans
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In VA, care coordination involves the use of telehealth, disease management, and health informatics technologies to enhance and extend care and case management activities. VA is initially focusing its care coordination effort on the home and using home-telehealth technologies. We describe this range of activities as care coordination/home telehealth (CCHT). We are finding these technologies particularly useful for extending care in rural and underserved areas.
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