The State Of The Va Health Care System

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Committee to Evaluate the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309466608

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Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Committee to Evaluate the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services Pdf

Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veterans began experiencing mental health problems. Given the stressors associated with war, it is not surprising that some service members developed such mental health conditions as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorder. Subsequent epidemiologic studies conducted on military and veteran populations that served in the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq provided scientific evidence that those who fought were in fact being diagnosed with mental illnesses and experiencing mental healthâ€"related outcomesâ€"in particular, suicideâ€"at a higher rate than the general population. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the quality, capacity, and access to mental health care services for veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn. It includes an analysis of not only the quality and capacity of mental health care services within the Department of Veterans Affairs, but also barriers faced by patients in utilizing those services.

Author : United States. Department of Veterans Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Families of military personnel
ISBN : UIUC:30112055134156

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VA health care overview by United States. Department of Veterans Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : PURD:32754074127451

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The State of the VA Health Care System by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health Pdf

Author : Phillip Longman
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781609945824

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Best Care Anywhere by Phillip Longman Pdf

“An outstanding book . . . documents how the VA’s system of integrative care outperforms the models used by private insurers.” —USW Blog (United Steelworkers) NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Phillip Longman tells the amazing story of the turnaround of the Department of Veterans Affairs health-care system from a dysfunctional, scandal-prone bureaucracy into the benchmark for high-quality medicine in the United States. Best Care Anywhere shows that vast swaths of what we think we know about health, health care, and medical economics are just plain wrong. And the book demonstrates how this extraordinarily cost-effective model, which has proven to be highly popular with veterans, can be made available to everyone. New to this edition is an analysis of how the shortcomings of both so-called Obamacare and Republican plans to privatize Medicare reinforce the need for applying the lessons of the VA. Also included are completely updated statistics and research, as well as examples of how the private sector is already beginning to learn from the VA’s example. “Among the most important social policy books published in the last decade.” —Ezra Klein, The Washington Post “Read Best Care Anywhere not just to learn about one of our public health agencies that is a global star in terms of cost effective, evidence-based results, but also to learn how your own health care process can be improved by adopting the Veterans Health Administration’s methodology for transparency and patient-centered care.” —New York Journal of Books

Author : United States. Veterans Administration. Department of Medicine and Surgery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Medical care
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126755656

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Regionalization of Veterans Administration's Health Care System by United States. Veterans Administration. Department of Medicine and Surgery Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309262019

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The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services Pdf

In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in most respects to other technologies for which better evidence of effectiveness is also being demanded. Telemedicine, however, has some special characteristics-shared with information technologies generally-that warrant particular notice from evaluators and decision makers. Since that time, attention to telehealth has continued to grow in both the public and private sectors. Peer-reviewed journals and professional societies are devoted to telehealth, the federal government provides grant funding to promote the use of telehealth, and the private technology industry continues to develop new applications for telehealth. However, barriers remain to the use of telehealth modalities, including issues related to reimbursement, licensure, workforce, and costs. Also, some areas of telehealth have developed a stronger evidence base than others. The Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) sponsored the IOM in holding a workshop in Washington, DC, on August 8-9 2012, to examine how the use of telehealth technology can fit into the U.S. health care system. HRSA asked the IOM to focus on the potential for telehealth to serve geographically isolated individuals and extend the reach of scarce resources while also emphasizing the quality and value in the delivery of health care services. This workshop summary discusses the evolution of telehealth since 1996, including the increasing role of the private sector, policies that have promoted or delayed the use of telehealth, and consumer acceptance of telehealth. The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary discusses the current evidence base for telehealth, including available data and gaps in data; discuss how technological developments, including mobile telehealth, electronic intensive care units, remote monitoring, social networking, and wearable devices, in conjunction with the push for electronic health records, is changing the delivery of health care in rural and urban environments. This report also summarizes actions that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can undertake to further the use of telehealth to improve health care outcomes while controlling costs in the current health care environment.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111205865

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Present and Future Role of VA Health Care by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160931258

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Health Care Benefits Overview by Anonim Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Care Services,VA Pharmacy Formulary Analysis Committee
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309183536

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Description and Analysis of the VA National Formulary by Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Care Services,VA Pharmacy Formulary Analysis Committee Pdf

The VA National Formulary generated controversy, which motivated congressional scrutiny and a directive to the VA to commission this report reviewing the experience with the National Formulary and formulary system. This Institute of Medicine committee was pleased to assist the Congress with this review, in part because the committee saw in the VHA example an opportunity to understand and anticipate problems that all publicly funded programs are likely to encounter in this new age of pharmaceuticals. The Congress asked the committee to review the restrictiveness of the National Formulary, its impact on the costs and quality of care in the VHA, and how it compared to formularies and drug management practices in the private sector and in other public programs, especially Medicaid. Detailed in the pages that follow, the committee's findings and conclusions on these questions are, the committee believes, highly instructive, though not always in the ways that we anticipated.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045128829

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Status of the Reorganization of the Veterans Health Administration and Related Initiatives to Improve VA Health Care Delivery Methods by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Health services accessibility
ISBN : UOM:39015059973118

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VA Health Care by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Veterans
ISBN : LOC:00183964033

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VA Health Care Delivery Facilities in the Great Lakes Region by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015042702756

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Barriers and Risks by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Medical care
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050684880

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The State of VA Health Care by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Commission on the Future Structure of Veterans Health Care
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Health Planning
ISBN : IND:30000098000833

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Proceedings of the Commission on the Future Structure of Veterans Health Care by United States. Commission on the Future Structure of Veterans Health Care Pdf