Veteran Information

Patient Care Perspectives
What is Care Coordination and what does it mean for me?

Care Giver Issues and Support for Caregivers in VA
Who are care givers and why are they so important?

Welcome, please enter through this section of the site using the 2 links above if you are a veteran patient, a family member of a veteran patient or a care giver providing personalized support to a veteran patient and want to find out about VA's care coordination programs. VA aims in introducing care coordination are to:

1. Help ensure veteran patients receive the right care in the right place at the right time.
2. Make their home (place of residence) the site where veteran patients receive care whenever this is appropriate.
3. Take away barriers of distance, time and travel from veteran care.

To achieve these aims VA's care coordination programs are using telehealth technologies.

General Information

Program Details
Care Coordination
General Telehealth Applications
Store-and-Forwards Applications
Current Telehealth Activity Table

Welcome, please enter through this section of the site using the 3 links above if you want to find out about care coordination in the VA. VA's care coordination programs use health informatics, telehealth and disease management technologies to enhance and extend care and case management. Here you will learn what VA's rationale is for implementing care coordination and what are the clinical, information technology, management, quality assurance and business practices that were necessary to develop to support these programs.